Fla. Stat. § 765.113 : Civil Rights — Health Care Advance Directives — Restrictions on providing consent Date: 18 Apr 2016 TEXT PDF Current through Chapter 269 of the 2016 Legislative Session Unless the principal expressly delegates such authority to the surrogate in writing, or a surrogate or proxy has sought and received court approval pursuant to rule 5.900 of the Florida Probate Rules, a surrogate or proxy may not provide consent for: (1) Abortion, sterilization, electroshock therapy, psychosurgery, experimental treatments that have not been approved by a federally approved institutional review board in accordance with 45 C.F.R. part 46 or 21 C.F.R. part 56, or voluntary admission to a mental health facility. (2) Withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging procedures from a pregnant patient prior to viability as defined in s. 390.0111(4). Fla. Stat. § 765.113 s. 2, ch. 92-199; s. 7, ch. 94-183; s.87, ch. 99-3.