Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 402
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                 Comm: UNFAV           .                                
                  03/02/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget (Bogdanoff) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 80 and 81
    4  insert:
    5         Section 2. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section
    6  39.201, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         39.201 Mandatory reports of child abuse, abandonment, or
    8  neglect; mandatory reports of death; central abuse hotline.—
    9         (1)(a) Any person who knows, or has reasonable cause to
   10  suspect, that a child is abused, abandoned, or neglected by a
   11  parent, legal custodian, caregiver, or other person responsible
   12  for the child’s welfare, as defined in this chapter, or that a
   13  child is in need of supervision and care and has no parent,
   14  legal custodian, or responsible adult relative immediately known
   15  and available to provide supervision and care shall report such
   16  knowledge or suspicion to the department in the manner
   17  prescribed in subsection (2). However, a reporter listed in
   18  subparagraph (b)1. or 2. shall, before making a report, make a
   19  reasonable attempt to contact the prescribing physician, if any,
   20  to determine if a test, administered at birth, which indicated
   21  that the child’s blood, urine, or meconium contained the
   22  presence of a controlled substance that is a prescription drug,
   23  as defined in chapter 499, or metabolites of such substances,
   24  was the result of legitimate medical treatment administered to
   25  the mother or the newborn infant.
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   28         And the title is amended as follows:
   29         Delete line 13
   30  and insert:
   31         Legislature; amending s. 39.201, F.S.; requiring
   32         certain persons who report children who are suspected
   33         of being abused, abandoned, or neglected, to attempt
   34         to determine if certain tests administered to the
   35         child at birth indicated the presence of a controlled
   36         substance; requiring the reporter to make a reasonable
   37         attempt to contact the prescribing physician to
   38         determine if the presence of a controlled substance
   39         was a result of a legitimate medical treatment;
   40         providing an effective date.