SB 188

Florida Senate bill in Session 2026.

Status: failed. Latest action: March 13, 2026.

Medical Examiners’ Duties.

Bill ID FL-2026-SB-188
Session 2026
Status failed
Committee Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy
Senate failed 2026-03-13
Healthcare
Summary

Medical Examiners’ Duties; Specifying autopsy requirements for certain cases involving sudden and unexpected deaths; requiring medical examiners to report specified cases to the national Sudden Unexpected Infant Death and Sudden Death in the Young Case Registry in accordance with protocols established by the Department of Health and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; requiring the department to impose certain administrative penalties against medical examiners for failure to report such cases in a specified timeframe, etc.

Sponsor
Garcia
Official Source Back to Bills
Actions Timeline
Date Event Detail
2026-01-13 Introduced Bill introduced
2026-03-13 Status failed
2026-03-13 Latest Action Senate - Died in Health Policy
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