The Florida Senate

765.310  Falsification, forgery, or willful concealment, cancellation, or destruction of declaration or revocation; penalties.--

(1)  Any person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, obliterates, or damages a living will without the principal's consent or who falsifies or forges a revocation of a living will of another, and who thereby causes life-prolonging procedures to be utilized in contravention of the previously expressed intent of the principal, commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

(2)  Any person who falsifies or forges the living will of another or who willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of the revocation of a declaration, with the intent to cause a withholding or withdrawal of life-prolonging procedures contrary to the wishes of the principal, and who thereby because of such act directly causes life-prolonging procedures to be withheld or withdrawn and death to be hastened, commits a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

History.--s. 4, ch. 92-199.