These two sites I found last night will likely have all the answers to your questions.
http://www.thedavidallenshow.com/topics/terrishiavo/20050228.somethingsfishy/20050228.lawschange
http://www.thedavidallenshow.com/topics/terrishiavo/20050228.somethingsfishy/20050302.morewhochangedthelaw
Here is what I found regarding the 1999 Florida Legislative Session in regards to the provision entitled END-OF-LIFE CARE — CS/CS/SB 2228 (Klein), HB 2131 (Argenziano and including George Felos):
Authorizes emergency medical technicians, paramedics, and personnel of hospital emergency services, long-term care facilities, assisted-living facilities, home health agencies, hospices, and adult family-care homes to withhold or withdraw cardiopulmonary resuscitation, pursuant to an order not to resuscitate. Makes changes in Chapter 732 relating to the Anatomical Gift Act, allowing health care surrogates with a written declaration to be involved in organ donation. The bill also proposes major revisions to Chapter 765, the Life-Prolonging Procedures Act. CS/CS/SB 2228 and CS/HB 2131 are now nearly identical and are expected to reach the floor in both the House and Senate prior to the end of the session. Both bills now contain provisions that before proceeding in accordance with a principal's living will, it must be determined that: 1) the principal does not have a reasonable probability of recovering capacity so that the right can be exercised directly by the principal; 2) the principal has a terminal condition; 3) has an end-stage condition; 4) or is in a persistent vegetative state. These same triggers are in place for the procedure to follow in the absence of a living will. In the case of a proxy making a health care decision, withdrawal or withholding of life-prolonging procedures must either be supported by a written declaration, or if there is no written declaration, the patient must be terminally ill, have an end-stage condition or be in a persistent vegetative state, and the proxy decision must be supported by clear and convincing evidence that the decision would have been one the patient would have chosen had the patient been competent. This legislation provides a new section on persistent vegetative state, allowing a judicially appointed guardian representing a patient's best interests to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging procedures if the guardian and the person's attending physician (in consultation with the facility's medical ethics committee) conclude that the condition is permanent, and there is no reasonable medical hope of recovery. The House version contains the additional protection that both the attending physician and the guardian conclude that the withholding or withdrawal of treatment would be in the best interests of the patient. The Senate companion legislation is expected to conform to this provision. The Conference has withdrawn opposition to this bill, but has not gone on record in support. CS/CS/SB 2228 is in Senate Rules. CS/HB 2131 is on the House Calendar. (M)
Thanks for your post 1151...I need to go and look up that law and see the sponsers
also look up post 1151 and check out the links. There is more info reguarding the law on this thread in various places