FL H0401

Health care facilities and providers owned or operated by religious institutions may refuse to administer, recommend, or deliver medical treatments contrary to their religious or moral convictions, with immunity from liability except when refusal places a patient in imminent danger of loss of life or serious bodily injury

Individuals, closely held organizations (owned by 5 or fewer people or a single family), religious institutions, and religiously-operated businesses may refuse to produce, create, or deliver custom products or services that conflict with their religious or moral convictions

Private child-placing agencies licensed under Florida law may refuse to perform, assist in, recommend, consent to, or participate in child placements that would violate their religious or moral convictions

Protected entities cannot face disciplinary or recriminatory action for refusals based on religious or moral objections

Effective date: July 1, 2016