Florida Senate Bill 1492 (Prefiled Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 27 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-27 - Filed
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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.

Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Sen. Ana Rodriguez [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-27	Senate	Filed

S1494 (Related) 2025-02-27 - Filed
H1355 (Similar To) 2025-02-27 - Filed
H1357 (Similar To) 2025-02-27 - Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
119	0712		Amended Code	See Bill Text
27	51		Amended Code	See Bill Text
27	511		Amended Code	See Bill Text
39	407		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	455		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	4598		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	4599		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	4612		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	4615		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	462		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	4625		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	463		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	4655		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	467		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	468		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	4785		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	492		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	495		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	496		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	499		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	67		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	674		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	676		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	875		Amended Code	See Bill Text
394	9085		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	311		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	416		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	501		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	675		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	6751		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	6759		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	677		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	6773		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	679		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	6798		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	681		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	68111		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	68112		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	68141		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	68151		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	6818		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	693		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	695		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	6951		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	6955		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	6957		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	697		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	6971		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	6975		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	6977		Amended Code	See Bill Text
397	702		Amended Code	See Bill Text
743	067		Amended Code	See Bill Text
790	065		Amended Code	See Bill Text
945	46		Amended Code	See Bill Text
984	19		Amended Code	See Bill Text
985	115		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1492
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/1492/BillText/Filed/HTML