Title: Authorizes Medical Conscience Objections
Vote to pass a bill that authorizes the the right to opt out of participation in or payment for certain health care services on the basis of conscience-based objections.
Establishes that the state legislature of Florida supports the moral, ethical, and religious convictions of healthcare providers (Sec. 1).
Establishes the right of a healthcare provider to abide by their seriously held religious, ethical, or moral obligations and opt out of the payment or performance of any healthcare service if a written notice of said seriously held belief is delivered to their supervisor (Sec. 2).
Specifies that conscience-based medical objections are limited to a specific healthcare service and that refusal to provide for services do not extend to ones that do not violate a person's seriously held ethical, moral, or religious convictions or are based on a patient's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin (Sec. 2).
Establishes that a healthcare provider may not be discriminated against or suffer adverse adverse action against due to a decline to perform a particular medical procedure or service due to conscience based medical objections (Sec. 2).
Specifies that healthcare companies cannot be subject to adverse actions related to speech and whistleblower concerts related to the violation of this act (Sec. 2).
Specifies that a medical practitioner's license may not be revoked or denied if they speak in public about a public policy issue or a healthcare service on social media if they are not writing with the intent to provide official medical advice to a specific patient or said speech does not violate a law or rule (Sec. 3).
Specifies that if a medical board revokes or denies the license of an individual based on the conscience-based medical objections if it is not based on the promotion of medical advice or treatment of specific patients will have its approval revoked by the appropriate agency (Sec. 3).
Specifies that if any provision of this act is held as invalid then that does not mean that the other provisions are affected (Sec. 4).
Specifies that this act will go into effect on July 1, 2023 (Sec. 5).
Title: Authorizes Medical Conscience Objections
Vote to pass a bill that authorizes the the right to opt out of participation in or payment for certain health care services on the basis of conscience-based objections.
Establishes that the state legislature of Florida supports the moral, ethical, and religious convictions of healthcare providers (Sec. 1).
Establishes the right of a healthcare provider to abide by their seriously held religious, ethical, or moral obligations and opt out of the payment or performance of any healthcare service if a written notice of said seriously held belief is delivered to their supervisor (Sec. 2).
Specifies that conscience-based medical objections are limited to a specific healthcare service and that refusal to provide for services do not extend to ones that do not violate a person's seriously held ethical, moral, or religious convictions or are based on a patient's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin (Sec. 2).
Establishes that a healthcare provider may not be discriminated against or suffer adverse adverse action against due to a decline to perform a particular medical procedure or service due to conscience based medical objections (Sec. 2).
Specifies that healthcare companies cannot be subject to adverse actions related to speech and whistleblower concerts related to the violation of this act (Sec. 2).
Specifies that a medical practitioner's license may not be revoked or denied if they speak in public about a public policy issue or a healthcare service on social media if they are not writing with the intent to provide official medical advice to a specific patient or said speech does not violate a law or rule (Sec. 3).
Specifies that if a medical board revokes or denies the license of an individual based on the conscience-based medical objections if it is not based on the promotion of medical advice or treatment of specific patients will have its approval revoked by the appropriate agency (Sec. 3).
Specifies that if any provision of this act is held as invalid then that does not mean that the other provisions are affected (Sec. 4).
Specifies that this act will go into effect on July 1, 2023 (Sec. 5).
Title: Authorizes Medical Conscience Objections