The Florida Senate

HB 1323: Advocacy Councils

GENERAL BILL by Bean ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Henriquez ; Kendrick ; Robaina

Advocacy Councils; provides said councils access to certain records; deletes requirement that patient or patient representative be given opportunity to object to provision of such records; provides that representatives of advocacy councils, rather than of long-term care ombudsman councils, shall participate in quality-of-care assessment visits at nursing homes; revises legislative intent & definitions re Fla. Statewide Advocacy Council, etc. Amends FS.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  3/4/2003	House	• Filed
  3/6/2003	House	• Introduced -HJ 00136
  3/11/2003	House	• Referred to The Future of Florida's Families; Judicial Appropriations (AP); Appropriations -HJ 00184
  4/8/2003	House	• Withdrawn from The Future of Florida's Families; Judicial Appropriations (AP); Appropriations; Withdrawn from further consideration -HJ 00340

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• HB 1323, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 3/4/2003 at 5:51 PM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
  S 2394	Advocacy Councils	Carlton	Identical	Last Action: 4/10/2003 S Withdrawn from Health, Aging, and Long-Term Care; Judiciary; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations -SJ 00380; Withdrawn from further consideration -SJ 00380 Location:

  Citations - Statutes (18)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  39.202	Confidentiality of reports and records in cases of child abuse or neglect.
  163.62	Collaborative client information system; establishment.
  215.5601	Lawton Chiles Endowment Fund.
  394.4615	Clinical records; confidentiality.
  395.3025	Patient and personnel records; copies; examination.
  400.118	Quality assurance; early warning system; monitoring; rapid response teams.
  400.408	Unlicensed facilities; referral of person for residency to unlicensed facility; penalties; verification of licensure status.
  402.164	Legislative intent; definitions.
  402.165	Florida Statewide Advocacy Council; confidential records and meetings.
  402.166	Florida local advocacy councils; confidential records and meetings.
  402.167	Duties of state agencies that provide client services relating to the Florida Statewide Advocacy Council and the Florida local advocacy councils.
  402.70	Interagency agreement between Department of Health and Department of Children and Family Services.
  415.1034	Mandatory reporting of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of vulnerable adults; mandatory reports of death.
  415.104	Protective investigations of cases of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of vulnerable adults; transmittal of records to state attorney.
  415.1055	Notification to administrative entities.
  415.107	Confidentiality of reports and records.
  775.0823	Violent offenses committed against law enforcement officers, correctional officers, state attorneys, assistant state attorneys, justices, or judges.
  784.07	Assault or battery of law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical care providers, public transit employees or agents, or other specified officers; reclassification of offenses; minimum sentences.

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