Florida Senate Bill 206 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on May 3 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-05-03 - Died in Health Policy
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Establishing the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Program within the Department of Health for specified purposes; specifying which document takes precedence when directives in POLST forms conflict with other advance directives; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration, by a specified date, to establish and maintain a clearinghouse for compassionate and palliative care plans consisting of a database accessible to health care providers and facilities and other authorized individuals; authorizing specified personnel to withhold or withdraw cardiopulmonary resuscitation if presented with a POLST form that contains an order not to resuscitate the patient, etc.

Physician Orders for Life-sustaining Treatment

Sen. Jeffrey Brandes [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-05-03	Senate	Died in Health Policy
2019-05-03	Senate	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2019-03-05	Senate	Introduced
2019-01-10	Senate	Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations
2018-12-21	Senate	Filed

S208 (Related) 2019-05-03 - Died in Health Policy

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
400	142		Amended Code	See Bill Text
400	487		Amended Code	See Bill Text
400	605		Amended Code	See Bill Text
400	6095		Amended Code	See Bill Text
401	35		Amended Code	See Bill Text
401	45		Amended Code	See Bill Text
401	451		Amended Code	See Bill Text
408	064		Amended Code	See Bill Text
429	255		Amended Code	See Bill Text
429	73		Amended Code	See Bill Text
456	072		Amended Code	See Bill Text
765	205		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/206
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2019/206/BillText/Filed/HTML