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FL S0698
Bill
AI Summary
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Creates the criminal offense of "reproductive battery" in Florida, making it a third-degree felony for a health care practitioner to intentionally transfer reproductive material or implant a human embryo from a donor without the recipient's consent; elevated to a second-degree felony if the practitioner is the donor, effective October 1, 2020
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Requires written consent specific to and expressly identifying a pelvic examination before any health care practitioner, medical student, or trainee may perform one, with exceptions for court-ordered evidence collection or emergencies involving imminent irreversible physical impairment
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Establishes disciplinary grounds and mandatory immediate license suspension for health care practitioners who implant embryos or inseminate patients without the recipient's consent to the use of that specific donor's reproductive material
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Adds separate disciplinary grounds for physicians and osteopathic physicians who implant or inseminate patients using their own reproductive material, regardless of consent
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Tolls the statute of limitations for reproductive battery until the violation is discovered and reported to law enforcement or a government agency, and specifies that a recipient's consent to an anonymous donor is not a defense to the crime
Legislative Description
Reproductive Health
Last Action
Chapter No. 2020-31
6/19/2020