No. SB 166
Filed under Healthcare.
Parental Rights; Revising requirements for the provision of maternal health and contraceptive information and services to minors; requiring consent from a parent or guardian for a minor’s treatment for certain diseases; repealing a provision relating to minors’ access to outpatient crisis intervention services and treatment; requiring school districts to provide parents with specified information before the district administers certain questionnaires or forms to students, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDMinors able to consent on their own to voluntary substance-abuse treatment lose that legal capacity entirely; only involuntary admission remains addressed, and even there a court may still require parental participation.
Minors can still be examined for a sexually transmissible disease without a parent knowing, but can no longer be treated for one without a parent's or guardian's consent, unlike current law, which required neither.
Minors' consent-free access to outpatient crisis intervention services is repealed outright, and any behavioral-health follow-up care after a mobile crisis team's first, onsite response now needs a parent's consent.
School districts must still notify parents before giving K-12 students well-being or mental-health questionnaires, but can proceed unless a parent opts the student out, instead of first getting the parent's permission.
AIParental consent for a minor's care was already required unless otherwise provided by law. Now only the enumerated exceptions in s. 1014.04(1)(e) or a court order can excuse that requirement, closing off exceptions written into other statutes.
AICurrent law lets a minor alone consent to voluntary substance-abuse treatment, with the same legal effect as an adult's consent. That entire grant is repealed; only involuntary admission remains addressed, where a court may still require parental participation.
AICurrent law lets only the minor consent to disclosure of their substance-abuse treatment records, including to stop parents being told for billing purposes. That provision is repealed, removing the minor's exclusive control over that disclosure.
AIA minor can still be examined for a sexually transmissible disease without a parent's consent. Treatment is different: the text now adds that a parent's or guardian's consent is required before the minor can be treated.
AISection 394.4784, which let a minor get outpatient crisis intervention services without guardian consent, is repealed outright, and the cross-reference exempting it from the general guardian-consent requirement is removed too.
AIParents gain a new right to review, inspect, and consent before a minor is given a survey or questionnaire that may reveal political, religious, or sexual information, family finances, or psychological problems, among other listed categories.
AIA minor who is not married, a parent, pregnant, or consented for by a parent could still get family-planning and contraceptive services if a physician found probable health hazards from withholding them. That option is deleted.
AIA mobile response team's immediate, onsite crisis intervention remains available without parental involvement, but the text now adds that a parent's or guardian's consent is required for follow-up services, referrals, or care coordination after that.