Proposed Florida Firearm Legislation S1492
Legislation Overview
Title: Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Description: Providing exceptions to a provision prohibiting the court from appointing the public defender to represent certain persons who are not indigent; providing that the opinion of a qualified professional, rather than that of a psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse practicing within the framework of an established protocol with a psychiatrist, may be the basis for the court to grant a petition for the appointment of a guardian advocate; authorizing a qualified professional, rather than a physician or the patient's psychiatric nurse, to restrict a patient's access to his or her clinical records if the qualified professional believes such access to the records is harmful to the patient; requiring the qualified professional who assessed the patient, rather than the treating physician or psychiatric nurse practicing within the framework of an established protocol with a psychiatrist, to document in the patient's clinical record that the patient is able to give express and informed consent for admission, etc.
Session: 2025 Regular Session
Last Action: Introduced
Last Action Date: March 10, 2025
Sponsors
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1 sponsors: Ana Rodriguez (R);
Percentage of Senate sponsoring bill: 3% (1 of 40)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| Senate | Mar 10, 2025 | Introduced |
| Senate | Mar 6, 2025 | Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Rules |
| Senate | Feb 27, 2025 | Filed |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Introduced | Feb 27, 2025 | state link | bill text |
Amendments
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call
There have not been any votes on this bill
Link: link to state bill page
