The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

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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Amendments to 384.22

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 384.22

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 384.22.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

G. DEBAUN, v. STATE, 213 So. 3d 747 (Fla. 2017)

. . . Section 384.22 explicitly sets forth the legislative intent and purpose of the Act as follows: The Legislature . . . patients with a secure knowledge that information they provide will remain private and confidential. § 384.22 . . . intercourse while allowing the incidence of HIV to continue to “ris[e] at an alarming rate,” section 384.22 . . .

KOHL, v. KOHL, Jr., 149 So. 3d 127 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2014)

. . . .” § 384.22, Fla. Stat. (2013). . . .

STATE v. G. DEBAUN,, 129 So. 3d 1089 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2013)

. . . Stat. (2011); § 384.22, Fla. Stat. (2011). . . . Section 384.22 states as the Act’s purpose the intent to reduce the spread of these diseases: Findings . . . patients with a secure knowledge that information they provide will remain private and confidential. § 384.22 . . . The other completely new sections were section 384.22 entitled "Findings; intent;” section 384.31 entitled . . .

STATE v. D. C., 114 So. 3d 440 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2013)

. . . Section 384.22 sets forth the Legislature’s intent in enacting chapter 384: 384.22. . . .

STATE M. D. J. Jr. v. NORTH FLORIDA WOMEN S HEALTH AND COUNSELING SERVICES, INC. W. v. s, 852 So. 2d 254 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2001)

. . . See § 384.22, Fla. . . .

L. GABRIEL, v. M. TRIPP, Jr., 576 So. 2d 404 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1991)

. . . . § 384.22, Fla.Stat. (1989). . . .