SB 1986 Florida Senate · 2021 Regular Session

Medical Ethics and Diversity Act

Summary
Medical Ethics and Diversity Act; Establishing the right of health care practitioners, health care institutions, and health care payors to refuse to participate in or pay for health care services they find objectionable to their conscience; providing such entities immunity from liability for exercising their right of conscience; providing health care institutions immunity from liability if a health care practitioner employed by, under contract with, or granted admitting privileges by the health care institution exercises his or her right of conscience; prohibiting discrimination against health care practitioners for reporting violations to certain entities or for testifying, assisting, or participating in related proceedings, etc.
Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2021
Committee Review
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Governor
Introduced Mar 10, 2021 Last action Apr 30, 2021
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Mar 10, 2021
Introduced
Introduced
upper
Mar 4, 2021
Committee
Referred to Health Policy; Judiciary; Rules
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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Dennis Baxley
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