Florida Statute 384.22 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXIX
PUBLIC HEALTH

Chapter 384
SEXUALLY TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES

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F.S. 384.22

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.

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Cases Citing Statute 384.22

Total Results: 7

Gabriel v. Tripp

576 So. 2d 404, 1991 WL 35029

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Mar 15, 1991 | Docket: 1242776

Cited 8 times | Published

and lifelong disability, and premature death. § 384.22, Fla. Stat. (1989). Thus, we find that if a plaintiff

Yulia Forest Kohl v. Norman Dean Kohl, Jr.

149 So. 3d 127, 2014 Fla. App. LEXIS 15251, 2014 WL 4840739

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Oct 1, 2014 | Docket: 1400919

Cited 5 times | Published

people of the state and to visitors to the state.” § 384.22, Fla. Stat. (2013). Applying an actual or

State v. WOMEN'S HEALTH AND COUNSELING SERVICES, INC.

852 So. 2d 254, 2001 WL 111037

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Feb 9, 2001 | Docket: 1305594

Cited 3 times | Published

transmitted diseases are by definition contagious. See § 384.22, Fla. Stat. (1999) ("The Legislature finds and

Gary G. Debaun v. State of Florida

213 So. 3d 747, 42 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 322, 2017 Fla. LEXIS 583

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Mar 16, 2017 | Docket: 4618310

Cited 1 times | Published

Statutes, which is titled “Public Health.” Section 384.22 explicitly sets forth the legislative intent

State v. D.C.

114 So. 3d 440, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 8595, 2013 WL 2359490

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: May 31, 2013 | Docket: 60231926

Cited 1 times | Published

Transmissible Disease Act. § 384.21, Fla. Stat. (2008). Section 384.22 sets forth the Legislature’s intent in enacting

State v. Debaun

129 So. 3d 1089, 2013 WL 5814005, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 17224

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Oct 30, 2013 | Docket: 60237287

Published

transmitted diseases. § 384.21, Fla. Stat. (2011); § 384.22, Fla. Stat. (2011). Section 384.23 defines a “sexually

State, Florida Department of Health v. North Florida Women's Health & Counseling Services, Inc.

852 So. 2d 254, 2001 Fla. App. LEXIS 1217

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Feb 9, 2001 | Docket: 64824348

Published

transmitted diseases are by definition contagious. See § 384.22, Fla. Stat. (1999) (“The Legislature finds and