Florida Statute 384.23 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXIX
PUBLIC HEALTH

Chapter 384
SEXUALLY TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES

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F.S. 384.23

384.23 Definitions.—

(1) “Department” means the Department of Health.

(2) “County health department” means agencies and entities as designated in chapter 154.

(3) “Sexually transmissible disease” means a bacterial, viral, fungal, or parasitic disease determined by rule of the department to be sexually transmissible, to be a threat to the public health and welfare, and to be a disease for which a legitimate public interest will be served by providing for prevention, elimination, control, and treatment. The department must, by rule, determine which diseases are to be designated as sexually transmissible diseases and shall consider the recommendations and classifications of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other nationally recognized medical authorities in that determination. Not all diseases that are sexually transmissible need be designated for the purposes of this act.

History.—s. 90, ch. 86-220; s. 26, ch. 88-380; s. 66, ch. 97-101; s. 7, ch. 2016-230.

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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

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Stat. (2011); § 384.22, Fla. Stat. (2011). Section 384.23 defines a “sexually transmissible disease”

Ago

Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Aug 14, 1998 | Docket: 3258862

Published

Sexually Transmissible Disease Act [Act]."6 Section 384.23(1), Florida Statutes, states that the term