What it means
Section 384.24 is the criminal disclosure rule of Florida's sexually-transmissible-disease chapter. Subsection (1) lists nine diseases — chancroid, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, lymphogranuloma venereum, genital herpes simplex, chlamydia, nongonococcal urethritis, pelvic inflammatory disease/acute salpingitis, and syphilis. A person who knows they are infected and has been informed the disease can be communicated through sexual intercourse may not have intercourse unless the other person has been informed of the disease and has consented.
Subsection (2) states the same rule separately for human immunodeficiency virus: knowledge of the infection, plus having been informed of its sexual transmissibility, plus intercourse without the partner's informed consent. The penalty provisions sit elsewhere in chapter 384; this section defines the unlawful act itself.
- Subsection (1) covers nine listed diseases, from gonorrhea and chlamydia to syphilis and genital herpes.
- Elements: the person knows of the infection, has been informed it is sexually transmissible, and proceeds without the partner's informed consent.
- Subsection (2) is the HIV provision — the same elements, stated as a separate offense.
- The safe harbor requires both disclosure and consent — informing the partner alone is not the statute's full test.
- Penalties are set elsewhere in chapter 384; §384.24 defines the prohibited acts.
How it plays out
In probate, this statute surfaces in civil claims rather than prosecutions. A surviving partner who was never told of a decedent's infection may bring claims against the estate, and §384.24's disclosure duty is the standard those claims point to — the best-known American example is the verdict a jury returned against Rock Hudson's estate on exactly this theory. For personal representatives, it is a reminder that claims against an estate can sound in conduct, not contracts, and they arrive on the same strict claim deadlines as everything else.