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An act relating to medical freedom; providing a short title; repealing s. 9 of chapter 2023-43, Laws of Florida, as amended by chapter 2025-114, Laws of Florida, relating to the future repeal of the definition of the term “messenger ribonucleic acid vaccine”; amending s. 381.00315, F.S.; providing construction; amending s. 456.054, F.S.; prohibiting a vaccine manufacturer from offering or paying, and a health care practitioner from receiving, specified financial incentives for the administration of a vaccine; providing a penalty; amending s. 456.0575, F.S.; requiring certain health care practitioners and paramedics to, before administering one or more vaccines to a minor child, provide the parent or legal guardian with specified materials; requiring such practitioners and paramedics to obtain the signature of a minor child’s parent or guardian acknowledging receipt of such information; requiring health care practitioners to discuss certain information with a minor child’s parent or guardian when more than one vaccine is to be administered; authorizing a health care practitioner, at the request of the parent or guardian, to administer the vaccines to the minor child over multiple encounters; providing that specified amendments made by the act to s. 456.0575, F.S., take effect on a specified date or within a specified timeframe after the Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine adopt certain materials by joint rule, whichever occurs later; requiring the boards to adopt the joint rule within a specified timeframe and immediately notify the Division of Law Revision of their adoption of the joint rule; creating ss. 458.3351, 459.0156, and 464.0181, F.S.; providing certain health care practitioners immunity from civil and criminal liability and disciplinary action for prescribing or administering ivermectin to adults under certain circumstances; creating s. 465.1897, F.S.; authorizing pharmacists to provide ivermectin to adults without a prescription as a behind-the-counter medication until the United States Food and Drug Administration approves it for over-the-counter sale; requiring pharmacists to provide specified information before providing the ivermectin; providing pharmacists acting in good faith with immunity from civil and criminal liability and disciplinary action for providing ivermectin to adults; authorizing the Board of Pharmacy to adopt rules; amending s. 1003.22, F.S.; revising exemptions from school-entry immunization requirements; requiring the Department of Health to make the immunization exemption form for religious or conscience-based exemptions publicly available on its website; specifying procedures and requirements for receiving such exemptions; requiring the department to ensure that when a certain exemption form is downloaded from its website, the download includes the form and specified materials as a single document; providing that the requirement takes effect upon adoption of a specified rule; requiring that the web page containing the download link also include and prominently display certain other links; revising requirements and procedures for declarations of a communicable disease emergency; providing effective dates.

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Clay Yarborough (R)*, 

Died in Rules (on 04/30/2026)

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