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Fla. Stat. § 384.22 (2025)

Findings; intent.

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384.22 Findings; intent.—The Legislature finds and declares that sexually transmissible diseases constitute a serious and sometimes fatal threat to the public and individual health and welfare of the people of the state and to visitors to the state. The Legislature finds that the incidence of sexually transmissible diseases is rising at an alarming rate and that these diseases result in significant social, health, and economic costs, including infant and maternal mortality, temporary and lifelong disability, and premature death. The Legislature finds that sexually transmissible diseases, by their nature, involve sensitive issues of privacy, and it is the intent of the Legislature that all programs designed to deal with these diseases afford patients privacy, confidentiality, and dignity. The Legislature finds that medical knowledge and information about sexually transmissible diseases are rapidly changing. The Legislature intends to provide a program that is sufficiently flexible to meet emerging needs, deals efficiently and effectively with reducing the incidence of sexually transmissible diseases, and provides patients with a secure knowledge that information they provide will remain private and confidential.

History.—s. 90, ch. 86-220.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 7 cases, 1991–2017 · leading case: Gary G. Debaun v. State of Florida, 213 So. 3d 747 (Fla. 2017).

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Gary G. Debaun v. State of Florida, 213 So. 3d 747 (Fla. 2017). · cites it 5× “§ 384.22, Fla. Stat. (2011) (emphasis added).”

State v. Debaun, 129 So. 3d 1089 (Fla. 3d DCA 2013). · cites it 6× “(2011); § 384.22, Fla. Stat. (2011). Section 384.”

Yulia Forest Kohl v. Norman Dean Kohl, Jr., 149 So. 3d 127 (Fla. 4th DCA 2014). · cites it 2× “” § 384.22, Fla. Stat. (2013). Applying an actual or constructive knowledge standard, our sister states have carved out two situations sufficient to impose a duty in negligence for transmitting a sexually transmissible disease.”

Gabriel v. Tripp, 576 So. 2d 404 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991). · cites it 2× “§ 384.22, Fla. Stat. (1989). Thus, we find that if a plaintiff is able to file a complaint that tracks section 384.”

State v. D.C., 114 So. 3d 440 (Fla. 5th DCA 2013). “Section 384.22 sets forth the Legislature’s intent in enacting chapter 384: 384.”

State v. Women's Health & Counseling Servs., Inc., 852 So. 2d 254 (Fla. 1st DCA 2001). · cites it 2× “See § 384.22, Fla. Stat. (1999) ("The Legislature finds and declares that sexually transmissible diseases constitute a serious and sometimes fatal threat to the public .”

State, Florida Dep't of Health v. North Florida Women's Health & Counseling Servs., Inc., 852 So. 2d 254 (Fla. 1st DCA 2001). · cites it 2× “See § 384.22, Fla. Stat. (1999) (“The Legislature finds and declares that sexually transmissible diseases constitute a serious and sometimes fatal threat to the public .”

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