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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XI
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
Chapter 154
PUBLIC HEALTH FACILITIES
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F.S. 154.302
154.302 Legislative intent.The Legislature finds that certain hospitals provide a disproportionate share of charity care for persons who are indigent, not able to pay their medical bills, and not eligible for government-funded programs. The burden of absorbing the cost of this uncompensated charity care is borne by the hospital, the private pay patients, and, many times, by the taxpayers in the county when the hospital is subsidized by tax revenues. The Legislature further finds that it is inequitable for hospitals and taxpayers of one county to be expected to subsidize the care of out-of-county indigent persons. Finally, the Legislature declares that the state and the counties must share the responsibility of assuring that adequate and affordable health care is available to all Floridians. Therefore, it is the intent of the Legislature to place the ultimate financial obligation for the out-of-county hospital care of qualified indigent patients on the county in which the indigent patient resides.
History.s. 3, ch. 77-455; s. 7, ch. 88-294; s. 3, ch. 98-191.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 154.302
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 154.302.



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CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, a E. v. E. JOHNSTON, d b a s, 564 So. 2d 1185 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1990)

. . . McMillan, from enforcement of Sections 154.302 through 154.306, Jacksonville Municipal Ordinances. . . .

CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, a E. v. L. L. CHEERS, INC. d b a, 564 So. 2d 1185 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1990)

. . . City of Jacksonville appeals a nonfi-nal order temporarily enjoining the City from enforcing sections 154.302 . . .

CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, a E. v. C. J. VENTURES, INC. a d b a, 558 So. 2d 133 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1990)

. . . Under section 154.302, persons operating bona fide restaurants under a restaurant license and licensed . . . Constitution of the United States, and enjoining the City and the Sheriff from enforcement of sections 154.302 . . .

DADE COUNTY, v. AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF MIAMI, INC., 502 So. 2d 1230 (Fla. 1987)

. . . I have some difficulty with the Court’s somewhat cavalier dismissal of section 154.302, Florida Statutes . . . Even accepting the Court’s conclusion that section 154.302 was intended to work only in concert with . . . Section 154.302 provides as follows: It is the intent of the Legislature to place the ultimate financial . . . Dade County, 160 Fla. 892, 37 So.2d 248 (1948); (2) section 154.302, Florida Statutes (1981); and, (3 . . . Section 154.302 provides: 154.302 Legislative intent. — It is the intent of the Legislature to place . . . We reject American’s argument that section 154.302 has the broader legislative purpose of placing a general . . .

DADE COUNTY, a v. AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF MIAMI, INC. a, 463 So. 2d 232 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1984)

. . . Section 154.302, Florida Statutes (1981), provides that “[i]t is the intent of the Legislature to place . . . As we see it, the legislative intent announced in Section 154.302, Florida Statutes (1981), is basically . . .

ST. MARY S HOSPITAL, a v. OKEECHOBEE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS,, 442 So. 2d 1044 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1983)

. . . It requires an interpretation of portions of The Florida Health Care Responsibility Act: 154.302 Legislative . . . As we see it, the legislative intent announced in Section 154.302, Florida Statutes (1981), is basically . . .