Florida SB 6: Relief of L.E. by the Department of Children and Families

Bill Text

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Medical Freedom 
2026-04-24T07:29:40Z 
Citing this act as the "Medical Freedom Act"; repealing a provison relating to the future repeal of the definition of the term “messenger ribonucleic acid vaccine”; prohibiting a vaccine manufacturer from offering or paying, and a health care practitioner from receiving, specified financial incentives for the administration of a vaccine; requiring certain health care practitioners and paramedics to, before administering one or more vaccines to a minor child, provide the parent or legal guardian with specified materials; providing that specified amendments made by the act to s. 456.0575, F.S., take effect on a specified date or within a specified timeframe after the Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine adopt certain materials by joint rule, whichever occurs later, etc. 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 6-D 

 By Senator Yarborough 

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 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to medical freedom; providing a short 
 3 title; repealing s. 9 of chapter 2023-43, Laws of 
 4 Florida, as amended by chapter 2025-114, Laws of 
 5 Florida, relating to the future repeal of the 
 6 definition of the term “messenger ribonucleic acid 
 7 vaccine”; amending s. 381.00315, F.S.; providing 
 8 construction; amending s. 456.054, F.S.; prohibiting a 
 9 vaccine manufacturer from offering or paying, and a 
 10 health care practitioner from receiving, specified 
 11 financial incentives for the administration of a 
 12 vaccine; providing a penalty; amending s. 456.0575, 
 13 F.S.; requiring certain health care practitioners and 
 14 paramedics to, before administering one or more 
 15 vaccines to a minor child, provide the parent or legal 
 16 guardian with specified materials; requiring such 
 17 practitioners and paramedics to obtain the signature 
 18 of a minor child’s parent or guardian acknowledging 
 19 receipt of such information; requiring health care 
 20 practitioners to discuss certain information with a 
 21 minor child’s parent or guardian when more than one 
 22 vaccine is to be administered; authorizing a health 
 23 care practitioner, at the request of the parent or 
 24 guardian, to administer the vaccines to the minor 
 25 child over multiple encounters; providing that 
 26 specified amendments made by the act to s. 456.0575, 
 27 F.S., take effect on a specified date or within a 
 28 specified timeframe after the Board of Medicine and 
 29 the Board of Osteopathic Medicine adopt certain 
 30 materials by joint rule, whichever occurs later; 
 31 requiring the boards to adopt the joint rule within a 
 32 specified timeframe and immediately notify the 
 33 Division of Law Revision of their adoption of the 
 34 joint rule; creating ss. 458.3351, 459.0156, and 
 35 464.0181, F.S.; providing certain health care 
 36 practitioners immunity from civil and criminal 
 37 liability and disciplinary action for prescribing or 
 38 administering ivermectin to adults under certain 
 39 circumstances; creating s. 465.1897, F.S.; authorizing 
 40 pharmacists to provide ivermectin to adults without a 
 41 prescription as a behind-the-counter medication until 
 42 the United States Food and Drug Administration 
 43 approves it for over-the-counter sale; requiring 
 44 pharmacists to provide specified information before 
 45 providing the ivermectin; providing pharmacists acting 
 46 in good faith with immunity from civil and criminal 
 47 liability and disciplinary action for providing 
 48 ivermectin to adults; authorizing the Board of 
 49 Pharmacy to adopt rules; amending s. 1003.22, F.S.; 
 50 revising exemptions from school-entry immunization 
 51 requirements; requiring the Department of Health to 
 52 make the immunization exemption form for religious or 
 53 conscience-based exemptions publicly available on its 
 54 website; specifying procedures and requirements for 
 55 receiving such exemptions; requiring the department to 
 56 ensure that when a certain exemption form is 
 57 downloaded from its website, the download includes the 
 58 form and specified materials as a single document; 
 59 providing that the requirement takes effect upon 
 60 adoption of a specified rule; requiring that the web 
 61 page containing the download link also include and 
 62 prominently display certain other links; revising 
 63 requirements and procedures for declarations of a 
 64 communicable disease emergency; providing effective 
 65 dates. 
 66 
 67 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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 69 Section 1. This act may be cited as the “Medical Freedom 
 70 Act.” 
 71 Section 2. Section 9 of chapter 2023-43, Laws of Florida, 
 72 as amended by section 1 of chapter 2025-114, Laws of Florida, is 
 73 repealed. 
 74 Section 3. Paragraph (d) of subsection (2) of section 
 75 381.00315, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 
 76 381.00315 Public health advisories; public health 
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