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 Substitute for Amendment (169294) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Delete lines 128 - 143
    5  and insert:
    6         Section 4. Paragraph (i) of subsection (2) of section
    7  394.463, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    8         394.463 Involuntary examination.—
    9         (2) INVOLUNTARY EXAMINATION.—
   10         (i) One of the following must occur within 12 hours after
   11  the patient’s attending physician documents that the patient’s
   12  medical condition has stabilized or that an emergency medical
   13  condition does not exist:
   14         1. The patient must be examined by a facility and released;
   15  or
   16         2. The patient must be transferred to a designated facility
   17  in which appropriate medical treatment is available. However,
   18  the facility must be notified of the transfer within 2 hours
   19  after the patient’s condition has been stabilized or after
   20  determination that an emergency medical condition does not
   21  exist. If a physician at the designated facility to which the
   22  patient was transferred examines the patient and documents that
   23  the patient still poses a threat to himself or herself or to
   24  others, the designated facility shall not release or be ordered
   25  by a court to release the patient based solely on a failure to
   26  meet either the 12 hour transfer requirement or 2 hour notice
   27  requirement of this section, unless the patient's 72-hour
   28  examination period has ended.
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   31  And the title is amended as follows:
   32         Delete lines 12 - 17
   33  and insert:
   34         experience; amending s. 394.463, F.S.; providing that
   35         a designated facility that has received transfer of a
   36         patient outside a specified timeframe or that does not
   37         receive timely notification of transfer must not
   38         release such patient or be ordered by a court to
   39         release such patient under specified circumstances;
   40         amending s. 394.4655,