Bill Amendment: FL S0252 | 2023 | Regular Session
NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: Protection from Discrimination Based on Health Care Choices
Status: 2023-05-12 - Chapter No. 2023-43, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 238 (Ch. 2023-42) [S0252 Detail]
Download: Florida-2023-S0252-Senate_Committee_Amendment_823424_to_Amendment_422702_.html
Bill Title: Protection from Discrimination Based on Health Care Choices
Status: 2023-05-12 - Chapter No. 2023-43, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 238 (Ch. 2023-42) [S0252 Detail]
Download: Florida-2023-S0252-Senate_Committee_Amendment_823424_to_Amendment_422702_.html
Florida Senate - 2023 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 252 Ì823424ÇÎ823424 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Fiscal Policy (Burton) recommended the following: 1 Senate Amendment to Amendment (422702) (with title 2 amendment) 3 4 Delete lines 183 - 215 5 and insert: 6 institution in this state or as a condition of contracting, 7 hiring, promotion, or continued employment with the educational 8 institution. An educational institution may not discharge or 9 refuse to hire a person; deprive or attempt to deprive a person 10 of employment opportunities; adversely affect a person’s status 11 as an employee or as an applicant for employment; or otherwise 12 discriminate against a person based on knowledge or belief of 13 the person’s status relating to vaccination with any vaccine 14 defined under subsection (1) or COVID-19 postinfection recovery, 15 or a person’s failure to take a COVID-19 test. 16 (c) For matters relating to vaccines other than those 17 defined under subsection (1), an educational institution shall 18 provide for exemptions and reasonable accommodations for 19 religious and medical reasons in accordance with federal law. 20 (3)(a) An educational institution may not require a person 21 to wear a face mask, a face shield, or any other facial covering 22 that covers the mouth and nose. An educational institution may 23 not deny any person access to, entry upon, service from, or 24 admission to such educational institution or otherwise 25 discriminate against a person based on such person’s refusal to 26 wear a face mask, a face shield, or any other facial covering 27 that covers the mouth and nose. 28 (b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to: 29 1. A health care provider or health care practitioner as 30 those terms are defined in s. 408.824, provided such health care 31 provider or health care practitioner is in compliance with that 32 section. 33 2. An educational institution when a face mask, a face 34 shield, or any other facial covering that covers the mouth and 35 nose is used as required safety equipment in a course of study 36 consistent with occupational or laboratory safety requirements, 37 in accordance with standards adopted by the Department of 38 Health. The Department of Health shall adopt emergency rules to 39 develop such standards. Emergency rules adopted under this 40 subparagraph are exempt from s. 120.54(4)(c) and shall remain in 41 effect until replaced by rules adopted under the nonemergency 42 rulemaking procedures of the Administrative Procedure Act. 43 (4)(a) Notwithstanding s. 768.39, the Department of Health 44 may impose an 45 46 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 47 And the title is amended as follows: 48 Delete lines 499 - 500 49 and insert: 50 as a condition of contracting, hiring, promotion, or 51 continued employment; prohibiting educational 52 institutions from discharging persons, refusing to 53 hire persons, depriving or attempting to deprive 54 persons of employment opportunities, adversely 55 affecting persons with respect to employment, or 56 otherwise discriminating against any person based on 57 the knowledge or belief of a person’s vaccination or 58 COVID-19 postinfection