Amendment SA1-SB254

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2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE

SENATE AMENDMENT 1, TO SENATE BILL 254

September 26, 2019 - Offered by Senator Marklein.

SB254-SA1,1,1 At the locations indicated, amend the bill as follows:

SB254-SA1,1,4 1. Page 1, line 10: delete lines 10 and 11 and substitute “directives, findings of incapacity related to powers of attorney for health care, and determinations that a person is incapacitated for admission to a hospice.”.

SB254-SA1,1,5 2. Page 2, line 1: before that line insert:

SB254-SA1,1,6 “ Section 1s. 50.94 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB254-SA1,2,3 50.94 (8) A determination that a person is incapacitated may be made only by 2 physicians or by one physician and one licensed psychologist, as defined in s. 455.01 (4) advanced practice clinician, as defined in s. 155.01 (1g), who personally examine the person and sign a statement specifying that the person is incapacitated. Mere old age, eccentricity or physical disabilities, singly or together, are insufficient to determine that a person is incapacitated. Whoever determines that the person is incapacitated may not be a relative, as defined in s. 242.01 (11), of the person or have knowledge that he or she is entitled to or has claim on any portion of the person's estate. A copy of the statement shall be included in the records of the incapacitated person in the hospice to which he or she is admitted.”.

SB254-SA1,2,4 (End)