Florida Senate - 2019                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 188
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
       (Harrell) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 261 and 262
    4  insert:
    5         Section 4. Present subsections (3) through (8) of section
    6  458.345, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (4)
    7  through (9), and a new subsection (3) is added to that section,
    8  to read:
    9         458.345 Registration of resident physicians, interns, and
   10  fellows; list of hospital employees; prescribing of medicinal
   11  drugs; penalty.—
   12         (3) Notwithstanding 456.013(1)(b), a temporary certificate
   13  issued to a person applying for registration under this section
   14  to practice as a resident physician, an assistant resident, a
   15  physician, an intern, or a fellow in fellowship training may be
   16  valid for up to 60 days.
   17         Section 5. Present subsections (2) through (9) of section
   18  459.021, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (3)
   19  through (10), respectively, and a new subsection (2) is added to
   20  that section, and paragraph (a) of present subsection (4) and
   21  present subsection (5) of that section are amended, to read:
   22         459.021 Registration of resident physicians, interns, and
   23  fellows; list of hospital employees; penalty.—
   24         (2) Notwithstanding 456.013(1)(b), a temporary certificate
   25  issued to a person applying for registration under this section
   26  to practice as a resident physician, an assistant resident
   27  physician, an intern, or a fellow in fellowship training may be
   28  valid for up to 60 days.
   29         (5)(4) The registration may be revoked or the department
   30  may refuse to issue any registration for any cause which would
   31  be a ground for its revocation or refusal to issue a license to
   32  practice osteopathic medicine, as well as on the following
   33  grounds:
   34         (a) Omission of the name of an intern, resident physician,
   35  or fellow in fellowship training from the list of employees
   36  required by subsection (4) subsection (3) to be furnished to the
   37  department by the hospital or teaching hospital served by the
   38  employee.
   39         (6)(5) It is a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable
   40  as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083, for any hospital or
   41  teaching hospital, and also for the superintendent,
   42  administrator, and other person or persons having administrative
   43  authority in such hospital to willfully:
   44         (a) Employ the services in such hospital of any person
   45  listed in subsection (4) subsection (3), unless such person is
   46  registered with the department under the law or the holder of a
   47  license to practice osteopathic medicine under this chapter.
   48         (b) Fail to furnish to the department the list and
   49  information required by subsection (4) subsection (3).
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   51  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   52  And the title is amended as follows:
   53         Delete line 15
   54  and insert:
   55         Medicine; amending ss. 458.345 and 459.021, F.S.;
   56         establishing that a temporary certificate issued to a
   57         person applying to practice as a resident physician,
   58         an assistant resident physician, an intern, or a
   59         fellow in fellowship training is valid for a specified
   60         period; amending s. 459.0055, F.S.; revising