Senate Bill sb2444c1

    Florida Senate - 2006                           CS for SB 2444

    By the Committee on Health Care; and Senator Peaden





    587-2465-06

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to clinical perfusionists;

  3         requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis

  4         and Government Accountability to study and

  5         report on clinical perfusion; specifying

  6         requirements concerning the study and report;

  7         requiring the office to provide the report to

  8         the Legislature; providing an effective date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  The Office of Program Policy Analysis and

13  Government Accountability is directed to study and report upon

14  the practice of clinical perfusion in this state. The study

15  and report must identify the certifying agencies that provide

16  credentials for persons who provide clinical perfusion;

17  evaluate relevant workforce issues relating to clinical

18  perfusionists, including the number of such perfusionists

19  certified by national certifying agencies who are practicing

20  in this state and nationally; describe the certification and

21  recertification requirements for clinical perfusionists; and

22  identify the number of clinical perfusionists employed by

23  Florida-licensed hospitals and other health care facilities

24  that are not certified. Florida-licensed hospitals and health

25  care facilities shall provide the office with data regarding

26  the employment of clinical perfusionists, the salaries and

27  costs associated with persons providing clinical perfusion,

28  and other relevant data requested in order for the office to

29  complete the study and report required by this section. The

30  office shall provide the report to the President of the Senate

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    Florida Senate - 2006                           CS for SB 2444
    587-2465-06




 1  and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by February 1,

 2  2007.

 3         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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 5          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
 6                         Senate Bill 2444

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 8  In lieu of providing for the regulation of clinical
    perfusionists, the committee substitute requires the Office of
 9  Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to study
    and report on clinical perfusion in Florida, specifies the
10  requirements for the study and report, and requires the Office
    of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to
11  provide a report to the Legislature by February 1, 2007.

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