Florida Statute 395.302 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXIX
PUBLIC HEALTH

Chapter 395
HOSPITAL LICENSING AND REGULATION

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395.302 Patient records; penalties for alteration.—

(1) Any person who fraudulently alters, defaces, or falsifies any medical record, or causes or procures any of these offenses to be committed, commits a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

(2) A conviction under subsection (1) is also grounds for restriction, suspension, or termination of license privileges.

History.—ss. 25, 52, ch. 85-175; s. 69, ch. 91-224; ss. 31, 98, ch. 92-289.

Note.—Former s. 395.0165.

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