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The 2007 Florida Statutes

Title XXIX
PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 381
PUBLIC HEALTH: GENERAL PROVISIONS
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Chapter 381, Florida Statutes 2007

TITLE XXIX

PUBLIC HEALTH

CHAPTER 381

PUBLIC HEALTH: GENERAL PROVISIONS

381.001  Legislative intent; public health system.

381.0011  Duties and powers of the Department of Health.

381.0012  Enforcement authority.

381.0013  Eminent domain.

381.0014  Regulations and ordinances superseded.

381.0015  Presumptions.

381.0016  Municipal regulations and ordinances.

381.0017  Purchase, lease, and sale of real property.

381.0018  Application for and acceptance of gifts or grants.

381.0019  Disposition of equipment and material; transfers to county health departments.

381.002  Grant of title to prescriptive medical personal property to client.

381.0021  Client welfare accounts.

381.0022  Sharing confidential or exempt information.

381.0025  Penalties.

381.003  Communicable disease and AIDS prevention and control.

381.0031  Report of diseases of public health significance to department.

381.00315  Public health advisories; public health emergencies.

381.0032  Epidemiological research.

381.00325  Hepatitis A awareness program.

381.0034  Requirement for instruction on HIV and AIDS.

381.0035  Educational course on HIV and AIDS; employees and clients of certain health care facilities.

381.0036  Planning for implementation of educational requirements concerning HIV and AIDS for specified applicants for professional licensure.

381.0037  Findings; intent.

381.0038  Education.

381.0039  Oversight of AIDS education programs.

381.004  HIV testing.

381.0041  Donation and transfer of human tissue; testing requirements.

381.0042  Patient care for persons with HIV infection.

381.0043  Blood Donor Protection Act; blood and blood component donors; confidentiality.

381.0045  Targeted outreach for pregnant women.

381.0046  Statewide HIV and AIDS prevention campaign.

381.005  Primary and preventive health services.

381.0051  Family planning.

381.0052  Dental health.

381.0053  Comprehensive nutrition program.

381.0054  Healthy lifestyles promotion.

381.0055  Confidentiality and quality assurance activities.

381.0056  School health services program.

381.0057  Funding for school health services.

381.0059  Background screening requirements for school health services personnel.

381.00591  Department of Health; National Environmental Laboratory accreditation; application; rules.

381.00593  Public school volunteer health care practitioner program.

381.006  Environmental health.

381.0061  Administrative fines.

381.0062  Supervision; private and certain public water systems.

381.0063  Drinking water funds.

381.0064  Continuing education courses for persons installing or servicing septic tanks.

381.0065  Onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems; regulation.

381.00655  Connection of existing onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems to central sewerage system; requirements.

381.0066  Onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems; fees.

381.0067  Corrective orders; private and certain public water systems and onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems.

381.0068  Technical review and advisory panel.

381.0072  Food service protection.

381.0075  Regulation of body-piercing salons.

381.008  Definitions of terms used in ss. 381.008-381.00897.

381.0081  Permit required to operate a migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing; penalties for unlawful establishment or operation; allocation of proceeds.

381.0082  Application for permit to operate migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing.

381.0083  Permit for migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing.

381.0084  Application fees for migrant labor camps and residential migrant housing.

381.0085  Revocation of permit to operate migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing.

381.0086  Rules; variances; penalties.

381.0087  Enforcement; citations.

381.0088  Right of entry.

381.00893  Complaints by aggrieved parties.

381.00895  Prohibited acts; application.

381.00896  Nondiscrimination.

381.00897  Access to migrant labor camps and residential migrant housing.

381.009  Toilets required by department regulations; charge for use of prohibited.

381.0091  Separate restrooms and separate dressing rooms for males and females.

381.0098  Biomedical waste.

381.0101  Environmental health professionals.

381.0201  Technical and support services.

381.0202  Laboratory services.

381.0203  Pharmacy services.

381.0204  Vital statistics.

381.0205  Emergency medical services.

381.026  Florida Patient's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.

381.0261  Summary of patient's bill of rights; distribution; penalty.

381.0271  Florida Patient Safety Corporation.

381.0273  Public records exemption for patient safety data.

381.028  Adverse medical incidents.

381.0301  Education and resource development.

381.0302  Florida Health Services Corps.

381.0303  Special needs shelters.

381.04015  Women's Health Strategy; legislative intent; duties of Officer of Women's Health Strategy; other state agency duties.

381.0402  Area health education center network.

381.0403  The Community Hospital Education Act.

381.0404  Center for Health Technologies.

381.0405  Office of Rural Health.

381.0406  Rural health networks.

381.04065  Rural health network cooperative agreements.

381.0407  Managed care and publicly funded primary care program coordination.

381.045  Hepatitis B or HIV carriers.

381.0601  Self-derived and directed-donor blood programs.

381.06014  Blood establishments.

381.06015  Public Cord Blood Tissue Bank.

381.0605  Survey of state hospital facilities; Agency for Health Care Administration.

381.1001  Short title; Florida Community Health Protection Act.

381.1015  Community Environmental Health Program; creation; purposes.

381.102  Community health pilot projects.

381.103  Community health pilot projects; duties of department.

381.4018  Physician workforce assessment and development.

381.60225  Background screening.

381.731  Strategic planning.

381.732  Short title; Healthy Communities, Healthy People Act.

381.733  Definitions relating to Healthy Communities, Healthy People Act.

381.734  Healthy Communities, Healthy People Program.

381.7351  Short title; Closing the Gap Act.

381.7352  Legislative findings and intent.

381.7353  Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Closing the Gap grant program; administration; department duties.

381.7354  Eligibility.

381.7355  Project requirements; review criteria.

381.7356  Local matching funds; grant awards.

381.736  Florida Healthy People 2010 Program.

381.739  Short title; Charlie Mack Overstreet Brain or Spinal Cord Injuries Act.

381.7395  Legislative intent.

381.74  Establishment and maintenance of a central registry.

381.745  Definitions; ss. 381.739-381.79.

381.75  Duties and responsibilities of the department, of transitional living facilities, and of residents.

381.755  Benefits not assignable.

381.76  Eligibility for the brain and spinal cord injury program.

381.765  Retention of title to and disposal of equipment.

381.77  Nursing home residents, age 55 and under; annual survey.

381.775  Applicant and recipient records; confidential and privileged.

381.78  Advisory council on brain and spinal cord injuries.

381.785  Recovery of third-party payments for funded services.

381.79  Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program Trust Fund.

381.795  Long-term community-based supports.

381.815  Sickle-cell program.

381.83  Trade secrets; confidentiality.

381.84  Comprehensive Statewide Tobacco Education and Use Prevention Program.

381.85  Biomedical and social research.

381.853  Florida Center for Brain Tumor Research.

381.8531  Florida Center for Brain Tumor Research; public records exemption.

381.855  Florida Center for Universal Research to Eradicate Disease.

381.86  Institutional Review Board.

381.87  Osteoporosis prevention and education program.

381.88  Insect sting emergency treatment.

381.89  Regulation of tanning facilities.

381.895  Standards for compressed air used for recreational diving.

381.90  Health Information Systems Council; legislative intent; creation, appointment, duties.

381.91  Jessie Trice Cancer Prevention Program.

381.911  Prostate Cancer Awareness Program.

381.912  Cervical Cancer Elimination Task Force.

381.92  Florida Cancer Council.

381.921  Florida Cancer Council mission and duties.

381.922  William G. "Bill" Bankhead, Jr., and David Coley Cancer Research Program.

381.93  Breast and cervical cancer early detection program.

381.931  Annual report on Medicaid expenditures.

381.95  Medical facility information maintained for terrorism response purposes; confidentiality.

381.98  The Florida Public Health Foundation, Inc.; establishment; purpose; mission; duties; board of directors.

381.981  Health awareness campaigns.

381.982  Short title.

381.983  Definitions.

381.984  Educational programs.

381.985  Screening program.