Florida SB 1752: Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program

Bill Text

1752 
Suicide and Drug Overdose Prevention 
2026-01-09T12:58:30Z 
Creating the Drug Overdose Death Review Committee and the Suicide Death Review Committee, respectively, within the Department of Health for specified purposes; providing for membership of the committees and duties of the Drug Overdose Death Review Committee and the Suicide Death Review Committee, respectively; authorizing external stakeholders to review specified information; requiring the Drug Overdose Death Review Committee and the Suicide Death Review Committee, respectively, to annually submit a report to the Department of Health and the Statewide Drug Policy Advisory Council by a specified date, 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 1752 

 By Senator DiCeglie 

 18-00921C-26 20261752__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to suicide and drug overdose 
 3 prevention; creating ss. 394.47893 and 394.47894, 
 4 F.S.; providing legislative intent and purpose; 
 5 creating the Drug Overdose Death Review Committee and 
 6 the Suicide Death Review Committee, respectively, 
 7 within the Department of Health for specified 
 8 purposes; requiring local public health departments to 
 9 establish local review committees for a specified 
 10 purpose; providing for membership of the committees 
 11 and duties of the Drug Overdose Death Review Committee 
 12 and the Suicide Death Review Committee, respectively; 
 13 authorizing external stakeholders to review specified 
 14 information; providing for stakeholder participation; 
 15 requiring the Drug Overdose Death Review Committee and 
 16 the Suicide Death Review Committee, respectively, to 
 17 annually submit a report to the Department of Health 
 18 and the Statewide Drug Policy Advisory Council by a 
 19 specified date; providing requirements for the report; 
 20 authorizing the chair of the committees to access 
 21 certain records; authorizing the committees to access 
 22 certain records and information; authorizing providers 
 23 to charge a specified fee for records; providing 
 24 requirements for and prohibitions on the use of such 
 25 records and information; authorizing the chair of the 
 26 Drug Overdose Death Review Committee and the Suicide 
 27 Death Review Committee, respectively, to issue 
 28 subpoenas for records; providing construction; 
 29 providing that persons who attend a committee meeting 
 30 or otherwise participate in committee activities may 
 31 not be required to testify in any proceeding as to any 
 32 records or information related to such meetings or 
 33 activities; providing certain entities and persons 
 34 immunity from liability for participating in or 
 35 furnishing records or information to a committee; 
 36 providing applicability; authorizing the Department of 
 37 Health, or any political subdivision of the state 
 38 operating a local review committee, to administer 
 39 certain funds for the operation of the committees, 
 40 apply for grants and accept donations, and, to the 
 41 extent funds are available, hire staff or consultants 
 42 and reimburse reasonable expenses; authorizing the 
 43 State Surgeon General or a county or city 
 44 administrator to substitute certain existing entities 
 45 for purposes of carrying out the responsibilities of 
 46 the committees; requiring each regional managing 
 47 director of the Department of Children and Families to 
 48 appoint a local review committee representative; 
 49 providing requirements for the representative; 
 50 requiring the Department of Health to adopt rules; 
 51 providing an effective date. 
 52 
 53 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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 55 Section 1. Section 394.47893, Florida Statutes, is created 
 56 to read: 
 57 394.47893 Drug overdose review; Drug Overdose Death Review 
 58 Committee; local review committees.— 
 59 (1) LEGISLATIVE INTENT; PURPOSE.—It is the intent of the 
 60 Legislature to establish multidisciplinary, multiagency, 
 61 epidemiological drug overdose death review committees. The local 
 62 committees shall review the facts and circumstances of drug 
 63 related deaths that occur within each committee jurisdiction. 
 64 The local review committees shall work cooperatively. The 
 65 primary function of the local review committees is to conduct 
 66 individual case reviews of drug overdose deaths; identify 
 67 factors contributing to those deaths; make recommendations for 
 68 system, policy, and practice improvements at the local and state 
 69 level; promote interagency collaboration and data sharing 
 70 consistent with federal and state confidentiality protections; 
 71 and inform prevention initiatives through accurate, timely, and 
 72 comprehensive data. The purpose of the local review committees 
 73 is to: 
 74 (a) Achieve a greater understanding of the causes and 
 75 contributing factors of deaths resulting from drug overdose. 
 76 (b) Whenever possib