Title: Parenting Plans

Summary: Provides that parenting plan that provides for shared parental responsibility over health care decisions must authorize either parent to consent to mental health treatment for child.

Full Text:
An act relating to parenting plans; amending s. 61.13, F.S.; providing that a parenting plan that provides for shared parental responsibility over health care decisions must authorize either parent to consent to mental health treatment for the child; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 61.13, Florid a Statutes, is amended to read: 61.13 Support of children; parenting and time-sharing; powers of court.-(2) (b) A parenting plan approved by the court must, at a minimum: 1.,Describe in adequate detail how the parents will share and be responsible for the daily tasks associated with the upbringing of the child; 2. Include the time-sharing schedule arrangements that specify the time that the minor child will spend with each parent; 3. Designate a designation of who will be responsible for:a. Any and all forms of health care.If the court orders shared parental responsibility over health care decisions,the CS/HB 2016 parenting plan must provide that either parent may consent to mental health treatment for the child. b. School-related matters,including the address to be used for school-boundary determination and registration., and c. Other activities; and 4. Describe in adequate detail the methods and technologies that the parents will use to communicate with the child. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.