Florida House Bill 125 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Introduced on September 6 2011 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2012-03-06 - Laid on Table, refer to SB 278 -HJ 1117
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Designates act "911 Good Samaritan Act"; provides that person acting in good faith who seeks medical assistance for someone experiencing drug-related overdose may not be charged with specified offenses; provides that person who experiences drug-related overdose & needs medical assistance may not be charged for specified offenses if evidence was obtained as result of overdose & need for assistance; provides that protections from prosecution are not grounds for suppression of evidence in other prosecutions; provides that departure from lowest permissible criminal sentence is permitted when defendant was making good faith effort to obtain or provide medical assistance for someone experiencing drug-related overdose.

Preventing Deaths from Drug-related Overdoses

Rep. Mackenson Bernard [D]	Sen. Daphne Campbell [D]	Rep. John Julien [D]	Rep. Mark Pafford [D]
Rep. Steven Perman [D]	Rep. Ari Porth [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-06		Laid on Table, refer to SB 278 -HJ 1117
2012-03-06		Substituted SB 278
2012-03-05		Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/12
2012-01-19		Placed on Calendar -HJ 239
2012-01-19		Favorable by- Judiciary Committee; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 -HJ 239
2012-01-17		On Committee agenda-- Judiciary Committee, 01/19/12, 9:00 am, 404 HOB
2012-01-10		Introduced -HJ 16
2011-12-07		Now in Judiciary Committee -HJ 176
2011-12-07		Favorable by Health and Human Services Access Subcommittee; YEAS 14 NAYS 0 -HJ 176
2011-11-30		On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Access Subcommittee, 12/07/11, 9:00 am, 12 HOB
2011-10-18		Now in Health and Human Services Access Subcommittee -HJ 171
2011-10-18		Favorable by Criminal Justice Subcommittee; YEAS 13 NAYS 0 -HJ 171
2011-10-11		On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice Subcommittee, 10/18/11, 9:00 am, 404 HOB
2011-10-03		Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Access Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee -HJ 16
2011-09-06		Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
893	21		Amended Code	See Bill Text
921	0026		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/125
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0125/BillText/Filed/HTML