Florida Senate - 2025                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for HB 1091
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             04/29/2025 11:45 AM       .      04/30/2025 03:34 PM       
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       Senator Calatayud moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 117 and 118
    4  insert:
    5         Section 4. Paragraph (i) of subsection (2) of section
    6  394.463, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         394.463 Involuntary examination.—
    8         (2) INVOLUNTARY EXAMINATION.—
    9         (i) One of the following must occur within 12 hours after
   10  the patient’s attending physician documents that the patient’s
   11  medical condition has stabilized or that an emergency medical
   12  condition does not exist:
   13         1. The patient must be examined by a facility and released;
   14  or
   15         2. The patient must be transferred to a designated facility
   16  in which appropriate medical treatment is available. However,
   17  the facility must be notified of the transfer within 2 hours
   18  after the patient’s condition has been stabilized or after
   19  determination that an emergency medical condition does not
   20  exist. The designated facility may retain the patient for the
   21  remainder of the 72-hour examination period under paragraph (g),
   22  notwithstanding a failure of the transferring facility to comply
   23  with the 12-hour transfer requirement or the 2-hour notice
   24  requirement of this paragraph, if the patient continues to meet
   25  the criteria for involuntary examination under subsection (1).
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   28  And the title is amended as follows:
   29         Delete line 12
   30  and insert:
   31         experience; amending s. 394.463, F.S.; authorizing a
   32         designated facility to retain a patient for the
   33         remainder of a specified timeframe under certain
   34         circumstances; amending s. 394.4655, F.S.; providing