Florida Statute 384.30 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXIX
PUBLIC HEALTH

Chapter 384
SEXUALLY TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES

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384.30 Minors’ consent to treatment.—

(1) The department and its authorized representatives, each physician licensed to practice medicine under the provisions of chapter 458 or chapter 459, each health care professional licensed under the provisions of part I of chapter 464 who is acting pursuant to the scope of his or her license, and each public or private hospital, clinic, or other health facility may examine and provide treatment for sexually transmissible diseases to any minor, if the physician, health care professional, or facility is qualified to provide such treatment. The consent of the parents or guardians of a minor is not a prerequisite for an examination or treatment.

(2) The fact of consultation, examination, and treatment of a minor for a sexually transmissible disease is confidential and exempt from the provisions of s. 119.07(1) and shall not be divulged in any direct or indirect manner, such as sending a bill for services rendered to a parent or guardian, except as provided in s. 384.29.

History.—s. 90, ch. 86-220; s. 8, ch. 90-344; s. 12, ch. 93-227; s. 682, ch. 95-148; s. 200, ch. 96-406; s. 90, ch. 2000-318.

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Cases Citing Statute 384.30

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North Fla. Women's Health Servs. v. State, 866 So. 2d 612 (Fla. 2003).

Cited 55 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2003 WL 21546546

...likelihood that legislators will change good and effective statutes merely to avoid this Court's voiding statutes based on legislative inconsistency. It would be an unfortunate consequence of the present majority decision if the Legislature changes section 384.30(1) or 743.065(1), Florida Statutes (1999), in reaction to this majority's holding that the parental notification statute is unconstitutional because of legislative inconsistency....

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State v. Women's Health & Counseling Servs., Inc., 852 So. 2d 254 (Fla. 1st DCA 2001).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2001 WL 111037

...ms as the Act does, with respect to medical problems related to abortions. The Legislature has made exceptions, both for other pregnancy-related treatment, see § 743.065(1), Fla.Stat. (1999), and for treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, see § 384.30(1), Fla.Stat....

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State, Florida Dep't of Health v. North Florida Women's Health & Counseling Servs., Inc., 852 So. 2d 254 (Fla. 1st DCA 2001).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2001 Fla. App. LEXIS 1217

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

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

...the Department of Health. The Act provides that physicians and other health care professionals may examine and provide treatment for a sexually transmissible disease to any minor without securing the consent of the parents or guardian. Specifically, section 384.30 , Florida Statutes, provides: "(1) The department and its authorized representatives, each physician licensed to practice medicine under the provisions of chapter 458 or chapter 459, each health care professional ....

...eglect of children carried out by DCF; and the dependency program outlined in Chapter 39 , Florida Statutes, also carried out by DCF. Thus, a report of a positive result by a physician testing a minor for a sexually transmissible disease pursuant to section 384.30 , Florida Statutes, may be made available to the Department of Children and Families by the Department of Health when an abused or neglected child is in the physical custody of DCF....

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