• Introduced
    Feb 27, 2025
  • Passed Senate
  • Passed House
  • Became Law
SB 1492
Florida Senate Bill
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Mental Health and Substance Abuse; 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.
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Senate • Jun 16, 2025: Died in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
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  • Jun 16, 2025 | Senate
    • Died in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
  • May 03, 2025 | Senate
    • Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  • Mar 10, 2025 | Senate
    • Introduced
  • Mar 06, 2025 | Senate
    • Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Rules
  • Feb 27, 2025 | Senate
    • Filed
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