Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 734
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                 Comm: UNFAV           .                                
                  03/26/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Rules (Burton) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Before line 17
    4  insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (14) is added to section 766.102,
    6  Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         766.102 Medical negligence; standards of recovery; expert
    8  witness.—
    9         (14) In an action alleging the medical negligence of a
   10  heath care provider, a final order or other findings adopted by
   11  a board, as defined in s. 456.001, within the Department of
   12  Health pertaining to a complaint against the health care
   13  provider are discoverable and admissible as evidence in the
   14  action. If a party to the action failed to comply with or
   15  unreasonably delayed in responding to a request made by the
   16  department during the investigation of or a proceeding relating
   17  to the subject of the action, the party's failure or
   18  unreasonable delay is also discoverable and admissible in the
   19  action.
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   22  And the title is amended as follows:
   23         Delete line 3
   24  and insert:
   25         wrongful death; amending s. 766.102, F.S.; providing
   26         for the discoverability and admissibility of final
   27         orders by a board of the Department of Health in
   28         medical malpractice actions; providing for the
   29         discoverability and admissibility of a party's
   30         noncompliance or unreasonable delays in complying with
   31         certain requests by the Department of Health; amending
   32         s. 768.21, F.S.; deleting a