HOUSE AMENDMENT
                                                Bill No. CS/HB 991
    Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
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11  Representative(s) Flanagan offered the following:
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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 
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17         Section 1.  Subsection (18) of section 470.002, Florida
18  Statutes, is amended to read:
19         470.002  Definitions.--As used in this chapter:
20         (18)  "Legally authorized person" means, in the
21  priority listed, the decedent, when written inter vivos
22  authorizations and directions are provided by the decedent,
23  the surviving spouse, unless the spouse has been arrested for
24  committing against the deceased an act of violence as defined
25  in s. 741.28(1), a son or daughter who is 18 years of age or
26  older, a parent, a brother or sister 18 years of age or over,
27  a grandchild who is 18 years of age or older, or a
28  grandparent; or any person in the next degree of kinship. In
29  addition, the term may include, if no family exists or is
30  available, the following: the guardian of the dead person at
31  the time of death; the personal representative of the
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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT
                                                Bill No. CS/HB 991
    Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
 1  deceased; the attorney in fact of the dead person at the time
 2  of death; the health surrogate of the dead person at the time
 3  of death; a public health officer; the medical examiner,
 4  county commission or administrator acting under chapter 245,
 5  or other public administrator; a representative of a nursing
 6  home or other health care institution in charge of final
 7  disposition; or a friend or other person not listed in this
 8  subsection who is willing to assume the responsibility as
 9  authorized person.
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13  And the title is amended as follows:
14         On page 1, line 3, after services;
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17         redefining the term "legally authorized
18         person";
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