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The 2000 Florida Statutes

Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 63
Adoption
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Section 63.043, Florida Statutes 2000

163.043  Mandatory screening or testing for sickle-cell trait prohibited.--No person, firm, corporation, unincorporated association, state agency, unit of local government, or any public or private entity shall require screening or testing for the sickle-cell trait as a condition for employment, for admission into any state educational institution or state-chartered private educational institution, or for becoming eligible for adoption if otherwise eligible for adoption under the laws of this state.

History.--s. 4, ch. 78-35.

1Note.--Also published at s. 448.076.