Florida SB 166: Parental Rights

Bill Text

166 
Parental Rights 
2025-10-10T09:10:41Z 
Revising requirements for the provision of maternal health and contraceptive information and services to minors; requiring consent from a parent or guardian for a minor’s treatment for certain diseases; repealing a provision relating to minors’ access to outpatient crisis intervention services and treatment; requiring school districts to provide parents with specified information before the district administers certain questionnaires or forms to students, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 166 

 By Senator Grall 

 29-00132-26 2026166__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to parental rights; amending s. 
 3 381.0051, F.S.; revising requirements for the 
 4 provision of maternal health and contraceptive 
 5 information and services to minors; amending s. 
 6 384.30, F.S.; requiring consent from a parent or 
 7 guardian for a minor’s treatment for certain diseases; 
 8 amending s. 394.459, F.S.; conforming a provision to 
 9 changes made by the act; repealing s. 394.4784, F.S., 
 10 relating to minors’ access to outpatient crisis 
 11 intervention services and treatment; amending s. 
 12 394.495, F.S.; requiring consent from a parent or 
 13 guardian for certain services provided by a mobile 
 14 response team; amending s. 397.431, F.S.; revising 
 15 responsibility for the cost of certain substance abuse 
 16 services; amending s. 397.501, F.S.; revising 
 17 requirements for consent to disclosure of individual 
 18 records; amending s. 397.601, F.S.; revising 
 19 requirements for voluntary admission for substance 
 20 abuse impairment services; amending s. 1001.42, F.S.; 
 21 requiring school districts to provide parents with 
 22 specified information before the district administers 
 23 certain questionnaires or forms to students; requiring 
 24 school districts to give parents an opportunity to opt 
 25 their students out of such questionnaire or form; 
 26 amending s. 1014.04, F.S.; revising exceptions for 
 27 certain parental rights; providing that a parent has 
 28 the right to review, inspect, and consent to a 
 29 specified survey or questionnaire before the survey or 
 30 questionnaire is provided to the parent’s minor child; 
 31 providing that a parent has the right to certain 
 32 information about the survey or questionnaire at the 
 33 time consent is provided; providing applicability; 
 34 providing that a parent has the right to consent in 
 35 writing to the use of a biofeedback device on the 
 36 parent’s minor child; defining the term “biofeedback 
 37 device”; requiring that the results from the use of 
 38 such device be provided to a parent and be held as a 
 39 confidential medical record; amending s. 1014.06, 
 40 F.S.; revising exceptions for specified requirements 
 41 of parental consent; reenacting ss. 408.813(3)(f) and 
 42 456.072(1)(rr), F.S., relating to administrative fines 
 43 and grounds for discipline, respectively, to 
 44 incorporate the amendment made to s. 1014.06, F.S., in 
 45 references thereto; providing an effective date. 
 46 
 47 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 48 
 49 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section 
 50 381.0051, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 
 51 381.0051 Family planning.— 
 52 (4) MINORS; PROVISION OF MATERNAL HEALTH AND CONTRACEPTIVE 
 53 INFORMATION AND SERVICES.— 
 54 (a) Maternal health and contraceptive information and 
 55 services of a nonsurgical nature may be rendered to any minor by 
 56 persons licensed to practice medicine under the provisions of 
 57 chapter 458 or chapter 459, as well as by the Department of 
 58 Health through its family planning program, provided the minor: 
 59 1. Is married; 
 60 2. Is a parent; 
 61 3. Is pregnant; or 
 62 4. Has the consent of a parent or legal guardian; or 
 63 5. May, in the opinion of the physician, suffer probable 
 64 health hazards if such services are not provided. 
 65 Section 2. Section 384.30, Florida Statutes, is amended to 
 66 read: 
 67 384.30 Minors’ consent to treatment.— 
 68 (1) The department and its authorized representatives, each 
 69 physician licensed to practice medicine under the provisions of 
 70 chapter 458 or chapter 459, each health care professional 
 71 licensed under the provisions of part I of chapter 464 who is 
 72 acting pursuant to the scope of his or her license, and each 
 73 public or private hospital, clinic, or other health facility may 
 74 examine and provide treatment for sexually transmissible 
 75 diseases to any minor, if the physician, health care 
 76 professional, or facility is qualified to provide such 
 77 examination and treatment. The consent of a parent the parents 
 78 or guardian guardians of a minor is not a prerequisite for an 
 79 examination; however, the consent of a parent or guardian is 
 80 required for or treatment. 
 81 (2) The fact of consultatio