Florida Senate Bill 474 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 10 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-03-10 - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Establishing the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Program within the Department of Health; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to establish and maintain a database of compassionate and palliative care plans by a specified date; authorizing specified personnel to withhold or withdraw cardiopulmonary resuscitation if presented with a POLST form that contains an order not to resuscitate the patient; requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs, in consultation with the agency, to adopt by rule procedures for the implementation of POLST forms in hospice care, etc.

Physician Orders for Life-sustaining Treatment

Sen. Jeffrey Brandes [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-10	Senate	Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
2018-03-10	Senate	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2018-02-09	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 02/14/18, 4:00 pm, 401 Senate Office Building --Temporarily Postponed
2018-01-17	Senate	Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
2018-01-16	Senate	Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 6 NAYS 2
2018-01-11	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 01/16/18, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
2018-01-09	Senate	Introduced
2017-10-25	Senate	Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations
2017-10-10	Senate	Filed

S476 (Related) 2018-03-10 - Died in Governmental Oversight and Accountability
H1339 (Similar To) 2018-03-10 - Died in Health Quality Subcommittee
H1341 (Similar To) 2018-03-10 - Died in Health Innovation Subcommittee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
400	142		Amended Code	See Bill Text
400	487		Amended Code	See Bill Text
400	605		Amended Code	See Bill Text
400	6095		Amended Code	See Bill Text
401	35		Amended Code	See Bill Text
401	45		Amended Code	See Bill Text
401	451		Amended Code	See Bill Text
408	064		Amended Code	See Bill Text
429	255		Amended Code	See Bill Text
429	73		Amended Code	See Bill Text
456	072		Amended Code	See Bill Text
765	205		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/474
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/474/BillText/Filed/HTML
Amendment	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/474/Amendment/156796/HTML