No. CS/CS/SB 1756
Filed under Healthcare.
Medical Freedom; Citing this act as the "Medical Freedom Act"; repealing a provison relating to the future repeal of the definition of the term “messenger ribonucleic acid vaccine”; prohibiting a vaccine manufacturer from offering or paying, and a health care practitioner from receiving, specified financial incentives for the administration of a vaccine; requiring certain health care practitioners and paramedics to, before administering one or more vaccines to a minor child, provide the parent or legal guardian with specified materials; providing that specified amendments made by the act to s. 456.0575, F.S., take effect on a specified date or within a specified timeframe after the Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine adopt certain materials by joint rule, whichever occurs later, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDBefore vaccinating a minor, practitioners must give parents CDC vaccine information and state-approved risk materials, then get a signed acknowledgment. Vaccine manufacturers can no longer pay practitioners, directly or indirectly, for administering their vaccines.
Physicians, osteopathic physicians, and nurses gain immunity from lawsuits, criminal charges, and board discipline for prescribing ivermectin to adults in good faith. Pharmacists may now sell it to adults without a prescription.
Parents can now claim a school vaccination exemption based on personal conscience, not just religious belief, by filing a state form, broadening who qualifies to skip school-entry immunizations.
During a declared public health emergency, the State Health Officer can order treatment or isolation but never a vaccination. A scheduled future repeal of the mRNA vaccine definition in state law is itself repealed, keeping that definition permanent.
AIBefore giving a minor child any vaccine, a practitioner or paramedic must provide the CDC's vaccine information statement and board-approved risk-and-benefit materials, then get the parent or guardian's signature acknowledging receipt.
AIA vaccine manufacturer may not offer or pay a practitioner any commission, bonus, kickback, or rebate for administering a vaccine, and a practitioner may not accept one; a violation is treated as patient brokering, a felony.
AIEven when the State Health Officer has authority to isolate or treat someone who cannot or will not be examined or tested during a declared public health emergency, that authority does not extend to ordering a vaccination.
AIA physician, osteopathic physician, or nurse with prescribing authority cannot be sued, criminally charged, or disciplined by their licensing board for prescribing or administering ivermectin to an adult in good faith. Identical immunity is created in parallel for all three practice acts.
AIA pharmacist may dispense ivermectin to anyone 18 or older as a behind-the-counter product, without a doctor's prescription, until the FDA approves it for regular over-the-counter sale, as long as written safety information is given first.
AIA parent can now exempt a child from school vaccination requirements by attesting that immunization conflicts with the parent's conscience, not only religious tenets or practices as under prior law, using a Department of Health form.
AIA previously enacted provision that would have automatically repealed the statutory definition of messenger ribonucleic acid vaccine at a future date is itself repealed, so that definition now remains part of Florida law indefinitely.
AIOnce the two medical boards adopt the joint-rule materials, the Department of Health must package them together with the religious or conscience exemption form as a single download, and its web page must prominently link to federal vaccine information statements.