Page:Florida Senate Bill 254.pdf/2

{|cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style="font-weight:bold; width:100%" 2023254er for what constitutes voluntary and informed consent; providing that only a physician may prescribe, administer, or perform such prescriptions and procedures; defining the term “physician”; providing applicability; providing for disciplinary action; providing criminal penalties; requiring the Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to adopt certain emergency rules; providing that such emergency rules remain in effect until they are replaced by nonemergency rules; amending s. 456.074, F.S.; requiring the department to immediately suspend the license of a health care practitioner who is arrested for committing or attempting, soliciting, or conspiring to commit specified violations related to sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures for a patient younger than 18 years of age; creating s. 766.318, F.S.; creating a cause of action to recover damages for personal injury or death resulting from the provision of sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures to a minor; providing that certain limitations on punitive damages do not apply to such actions; specifying the timeframe within which such actions may be commenced; providing construction and applicability; providing severability; providing a directive to the Division of Law Revision; providing an effective date.
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: