Florida Senate Bill 144 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Failed on March 11 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-03-11 - Died in Health Policy
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requiring a physician, to whom the parent or legal guardian of a minor reports observing symptoms of autism exhibited by the minor, to refer the minor to an appropriate specialist for screening for autism spectrum disorder under certain circumstances; authorizing the parent or legal guardian to have direct access to screening for, or evaluation or diagnosis of, autism spectrum disorder for a minor from the Early Steps program or another appropriate specialist in autism under certain circumstances, etc.

Autism

Sen. Jeremy Ring [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-11	Senate	Died in Health Policy
2016-01-12	Senate	Introduced
2015-09-09	Senate	Referred to Health Policy; Banking and Insurance; Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government; Fiscal Policy
2015-08-19	Senate	Filed

H0049 (Same As) 2016-03-11 - Died in Health Innovation Subcommittee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
381	988		Amended Code	See Bill Text
627	6686		Amended Code	See Bill Text
641	31098		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2016/144
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2016/0144/BillText/Filed/HTML