Senate Bill sb0112c2

    Florida Senate - 2007                     CS for CS for SB 112

    By the Committees on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs;
    Health Regulation; and Senator Hill




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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to electroconvulsive therapy

  3         and psychosurgical procedures; requiring the

  4         Department of Health to compile data on the

  5         frequency and usage of electroconvulsive

  6         therapy and psychosurgery procedures on

  7         children; providing criteria for the data;

  8         requiring the department to report the data to

  9         the Legislature; providing an effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  The Department of Health shall compile data

14  concerning the frequency and usage of electroconvulsive

15  therapy and psychosurgery procedures on children under 18

16  years of age in this state. The data shall include the

17  severity of the illness requiring these procedures, any

18  adverse events resulting from the procedures, the efficacy of

19  the procedures, the number of these procedures performed over

20  a 3-year period in this state, the age of the children, and

21  the informed-consent process of each procedure. The data shall

22  also include the number of these procedures performed on

23  children who are in the custody of the Department of Children

24  and Family Services or the Department of Juvenile Justice or

25  who reside in facilities operated through the Agency for

26  Persons with Disabilities. The department shall report this

27  data to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the

28  House of Representatives by January 1, 2008, and annually

29  thereafter.

30         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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    Florida Senate - 2007                     CS for CS for SB 112
    586-2574-07




 1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
 2                      CS for Senate Bill 112

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 4  The committee substitute (CS) provides that the data to be
    compiled by the Department of Health (DOH) must include
 5  information about the number of procedures performed on
    children in the custody of the Department of Children and
 6  Families or the Department of Juvenile Justice, and on
    children who reside in Agency for Persons with Disabilities
 7  facilities. It requires DOH to report the data to the
    Legislature on or before January 1, 2008, and annually
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