Bill Text: FL S1516 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Documentation Status for Health Care Services

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2024-03-08 - Died in Health Policy [S1516 Detail]

Download: Florida-2024-S1516-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2024                                    SB 1516
       
       
        
       By Senator Torres
       
       
       
       
       
       25-01520A-24                                          20241516__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to documentation status for health
    3         care services; providing that certain licensed not
    4         for-profit corporations and organizations are not
    5         required to request the citizenship, residency, alien,
    6         or immigration status of any patient; providing an
    7         effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a
   12  licensed not-for-profit corporation or organization that
   13  delivers free health care services to the public may not be
   14  required to request, either orally or in writing, the
   15  citizenship, residency, alien, or immigration status of any
   16  patient.
   17         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.