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Notice: 417796

Notice of Proposed Rule

Department:

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Division:

Division of Disease Control

Chapter:

CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND CONDITIONS WHICH MAY SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECT PUBLIC HEALTH

Overview

RULE:

64D-3.001	Definitions (Repealed)
64D-3.002	Notifiable Diseases or Conditions to Be Reported, Human (Repealed)
64D-3.003	Notification by Laboratories (Repealed)
64D-3.0031	Notification by Others (Repealed)
64D-3.004	Notifiable Disease Case Report Content (Repealed)
64D-3.005	Authority, DOH County Health Department Director or Administrator and State Health Officer (Repealed)
64D-3.006	Reports, Medical Facilities and Freestanding Radiation Therapy Centers (Repealed)
64D-3.007	Quarantine, Requirements (Repealed)
64D-3.0071	Public Health Emergency (Repealed)
64D-3.008	Transportation and Removal of Quarantined Persons and Animals (Repealed)
64D-3.009	Laboratory Examinations, Release From Quarantine (Repealed)
64D-3.010	Quarantine Disinfection Procedures, Concurrent and Terminal (Repealed)
64D-3.011	Control of Communicable Diseases, Public and Nonpublic Schools, Grades Preschool, and Kindergarten Through 12; Forms and Guidelines (Repealed)
64D-3.012	Diseased Animals (Repealed)
64D-3.013	Procedures for Control of Specific Communicable Diseases (Repealed)
64D-3.014	Sensitive Situations (Repealed)
64D-3.015	Diseases Designated as Sexually Transmissible Diseases (Repealed)
64D-3.016	Reporting Requirements for Practitioners for Sexually Transmissible Diseases (STDs), Including HIV and AIDS (Repealed)
64D-3.017	Reporting Requirements for Laboratories (Repealed)
64D-3.018	Partner Notification (Repealed)
64D-3.019	Blood Testing of Pregnant Women (Repealed)
64D-3.020	Enforcement and Penalties (Repealed)
64D-3.021	Definitions (Repealed)
64D-3.022	Reporting Requirements for Individuals (Repealed)

PURPOSE:

The purpose of this very extensive rewrite of Chapter 64D-3, F.A.C., was to reduce language redundancy, enhance communicable reporting efficiency, clarify reporting and testing requirements for health care providers and laboratories, and to comply with new statutory requirements regarding STD testing of pregnant women and reporting of HIV-exposed infants and newborns.

SUMMARY:

The proposed rule amendments eliminate duplication and contradictory language by consolidating 29 sections into 21, reducing five (5) sections related to practitioner and laboratory reporting to two (2), standardized/reduce reporting time frames from nine (9) to three (3), establishes rules for the electronic reporting of positive laboratory reports indicating the presence of a notifiable disease, added the required reporting of HIV exposed infants and newborns to the department and established STD testing requirements during pregnancy to comply with statutory changes to 384.31 and 384.25 F.S. respectively.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

381.0011(4), 381.0011(13), 381.003(2), 381.0031(6), 384.33, 392.53(2), 392.66 FS.

LAW:

381.0011(4), 381.003(1), 381.0031(1), 381.0031(2), 381.0031(6), 383.06, 384.23, 384.25, 385.202, 392.53 FS.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

6/16/2006 Vol. 32/24

COMMENTS:

From 6/16/2006 To 7/7/2006 (21 Days)
The public comment period for this notice has already expired.

REFERENCE MATERIALS:

No reference(s).

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