Florida Senate Bill 278 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: Engrossed on February 10 2012 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2012-03-07 - Ordered enrolled -SJ 958
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

Cites this act as the "911 Good Samaritan Act;" providing that a person acting in good faith who seeks medical assistance for an individual experiencing a drug-related overdose may not be charged, prosecuted, or penalized for specified offenses in certain circumstances; providing that a person who experiences a drug-related overdose and needs medical assistance may not be charged, prosecuted, or penalized for specified offenses in certain circumstances; providing that the protections from prosecution for specified offenses are not grounds for suppression of evidence in other prosecutions; amending mitigating circumstances under which a departure from the lowest permissible criminal sentence is reasonably justified to include circumstances in which a defendant was making a good faith effort to obtain or provide medical assistance for an individual experiencing a drug-related overdose, etc.

Preventing Deaths from Drug-related Overdoses

Sen. Larcenia Bullard [D]

Sen. Alan Hays [R]

Sen. Maria Sachs [D]

Sen. Christopher Smith [D]

2012-03-07 - House - House: Third Reading RCS#1126 (Y: 117 N: 1 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2012-02-08 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading RCS#8 (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-07		Ordered enrolled -SJ 958
2012-03-07		Passed; YEAS 117 NAYS 1 -HJ 1160
2012-03-07		Read 3rd time -HJ 1160
2012-03-06		Placed on 3rd reading
2012-03-06		Read 2nd time -HJ 1117
2012-03-05		Received -HJ 1099
2012-03-05		Referred to Calendar -HJ 1099
2012-02-10		In Messages
2012-02-08		Passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 -SJ 346
2012-02-08		Read 3rd time -SJ 346
2012-02-07		Placed on 3rd reading
2012-02-07		Read 2nd time -SJ 321
2012-02-02		Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/07/12
2012-01-26		Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading -SJ 279
2012-01-25		Favorable by- Health Regulation; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 -SJ 279
2012-01-20		On Committee agenda-- Health Regulation, 01/25/12, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
2012-01-12		Now in Health Regulation -SJ 135
2012-01-12		Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 6 NAYS 0 -SJ 135
2012-01-10		Introduced -SJ 28
2012-01-09		On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 01/12/12, 10:15 am, 37 Senate Office Building
2011-10-20		On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 11/03/11, 10:30 am, 37 Senate Office Building --Temporarily Postponed
2011-10-04		Referred to Criminal Justice; Health Regulation -SJ 28
2011-09-19		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/2012/278
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0278/BillText/Filed/HTML
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0278/BillText/er/HTML
Roll Call	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/278/Vote/HouseVote_s0278__1126.PDF
Roll Call	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/278/Vote/SenateVote_s0278__008.PDF