HB 677

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to advanced registered nurse
3	practitioners; amending s. 893.02, F.S.; redefining the
4	term "practitioner" for purposes of the Florida
5	Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act to
6	include advanced registered nurse practitioners;
7	reenacting s. 775.051, F.S., relating to the
8	inadmissibility of voluntary intoxication as a defense to
9	proscribed offenses, to incorporate changes made by the
10	act in a reference to s. 893.02, F.S.; providing an
11	effective date.
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13	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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15	Section 1.  Subsection (20) of section 893.02, Florida
16	Statutes, is amended to read:
17	893.02  Definitions.-The following words and phrases as
18	used in this chapter shall have the following meanings, unless
19	the context otherwise requires:
20	(20)  "Practitioner" means a physician licensed pursuant to
21	chapter 458, a dentist licensed pursuant to chapter 466, a
22	veterinarian licensed pursuant to chapter 474, an osteopathic
23	physician licensed pursuant to chapter 459, a naturopath
24	licensed pursuant to chapter 462, or a podiatric physician
25	licensed pursuant to chapter 461, or an advanced registered
26	nurse practitioner licensed pursuant to s. 464.012, if provided
27	such practitioner holds a valid federal controlled substance
28	registry number.
29	Section 2.  For the purpose of incorporating the amendment
30	made by this act to section 893.02, Florida Statutes, in a
31	reference thereto, section 775.051, Florida Statutes, is
32	reenacted to read:
33	775.051  Voluntary intoxication; not a defense; evidence
34	not admissible for certain purposes; exception.-Voluntary
35	intoxication resulting from the consumption, injection, or other
36	use of alcohol or other controlled substance as described in
37	chapter 893 is not a defense to any offense proscribed by law.
38	Evidence of a defendant's voluntary intoxication is not
39	admissible to show that the defendant lacked the specific intent
40	to commit an offense and is not admissible to show that the
41	defendant was insane at the time of the offense, except when the
42	consumption, injection, or use of a controlled substance under
43	chapter 893 was pursuant to a lawful prescription issued to the
44	defendant by a practitioner as defined in s. 893.02.
45	Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.

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