Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1240
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/22/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Rules (Calatayud) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 128 - 143
    4  and 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. If the designated facility accepts transfer of a patient
   21  more than 12 hours after the patient’s attending physician
   22  documents that the patient’s medical condition has stabilized or
   23  that an emergency medical condition does not exist, or if such
   24  facility does not receive the required 2-hour notification of
   25  transfer, the receiving facility is not required to release the
   26  patient if a doctor at the designated facility examines the
   27  patient and documents that he or she still poses a threat to
   28  himself or herself or to others. Such patient is barred from
   29  seeking release by a court.
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   32  And the title is amended as follows:
   33         Delete lines 12 - 17
   34  and insert:
   35         experience; amending s. 394.463, F.S.; providing that
   36         a receiving facility that accepts transfer of a
   37         patient outside a specified timeframe or that does not
   38         receive timely notification of transfer is not
   39         required to release such patient under specified
   40         circumstances; providing that such patient is barred
   41         from seeking release by a court; amending s. 394.4655,