Florida Senate - 2013 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for CS for SB 966 Barcode 762612 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Senator Latvala moved the following: 1 Senate Substitute for Amendment (659334) (with title 2 amendment) 3 4 Between lines 3382 and 3383 5 insert: 6 Section 76. Section 483.111, Florida Statutes, is amended 7 to read: 8 483.111 Limitations on licensure.—A license may be issued 9 to a clinical laboratory to perform only those clinical 10 laboratory procedures and tests that are within the specialties 11 or subspecialties in which the clinical laboratory personnel are 12 qualified. A license may not be issued unless the agency 13 determines that the clinical laboratory is adequately staffed 14 and equipped to operate in conformity with the requirements of 15 this part, part II of chapter 408, and applicable rules. A 16 clinical laboratory licensed after July 1, 2013, may not perform 17 quantitative drug testing using high-complexity tests, as 18 categorized under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement 19 Amendments of 1988, unless the clinical laboratory is accredited 20 through the College of American Pathologists and submits to and 21 passes available proficiency testing for analytes applicable to 22 the drug-testing methods that the clinical laboratory uses. A 23 licensed clinical laboratory fully owned and operated by a 24 Florida-licensed hospital is exempt from the accreditation 25 requirements of this section. 26 27 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 28 And the title is amended as follows: 29 Delete line 337 30 and insert: 31 and land development; amending s. 483.111, F.S.; 32 requiring clinical laboratories that perform certain 33 drug testing to be accredited and pass specific 34 proficiency tests; providing an exemption for certain 35 clinical laboratories; amending s. 499.003, F.S.;