Florida Statute 384.23 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXIX
PUBLIC HEALTH

Chapter 384
SEXUALLY TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES

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384.23 Definitions.—

(1) “Department” means the Department of Health.

(2) “County health department” means agencies and entities as designated in chapter 154.

(3) “Sexually transmissible disease” means a bacterial, viral, fungal, or parasitic disease determined by rule of the department to be sexually transmissible, to be a threat to the public health and welfare, and to be a disease for which a legitimate public interest will be served by providing for prevention, elimination, control, and treatment. The department must, by rule, determine which diseases are to be designated as sexually transmissible diseases and shall consider the recommendations and classifications of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other nationally recognized medical authorities in that determination. Not all diseases that are sexually transmissible need be designated for the purposes of this act.

History.—s. 90, ch. 86-220; s. 26, ch. 88-380; s. 66, ch. 97-101; s. 7, ch. 2016-230.

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State v. Debaun, 129 So. 3d 1089 (Fla. 3d DCA 2013).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2013 WL 5814005, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 17224

...Chapter 384, of which section 384.24(2) is a part, is titled the “Control of Sexually Transmissible Disease Act” and addresses the threat to the public posed by sexually transmitted diseases. § 384.21, Fla. Stat. (2011); § 384.22, Fla. Stat. (2011). Section 384.23 defines a “sexually transmissible disease” as “a bacterial, viral, fungal, or parasitic disease” such as “chancroid, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, lympho-granuloma venereum, genital herpes simplex, chlamydia, nongonococcal urethritis (NGU), pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)/acute salpingitis, syphilis, [and] human immune deficiency virus infection [HIV].” § 384.23(3), Fla....

...ject to the foregoing analysis since the Control of Sexually Transmissible Disease Act was enacted in 1986. When enacted, the Act referred to "human T-lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III) infection.” See Ch. 86-220, § 90, at 1677, Laws of Fla.; § 384.23(3), Fla....

...merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hiv-1 (last visited October 28, 2013). The Florida legislature amended the Act in 1988 to replace HTLV-III with "human immune deficiency virus infection [HIV],” and also added the element of consent by the uninfected person. See Ch. 88-380, § 26, at 2016, Laws of Fla.; § 384.23(3), Fla....

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1998).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

...5 Your inquiry, however, concerns DCF's access to existing health records of a child who may have been exposed to a sexually transmissible disease. Chapter 384 , Florida Statutes, constitutes the "Control of Sexually Transmissible Disease Act [Act]." 6 Section 384.23 (1), Florida Statutes, states that the term "Department" refers to the Department of Health....