Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 584
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  02/14/2020           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Berman) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 30 - 57
    4  and insert:
    5         4. The membership of the council must reflect the ethnic
    6  and gender diversity of this state.
    7         (b) Two of the members appointed to the council must be
    8  physicians who supervise physician assistants in their practice.
    9  Members shall be appointed to terms of 4 years, except that of
   10  the initial appointments, two members shall be appointed to
   11  terms of 2 years, two members shall be appointed to terms of 3
   12  years, and one member shall be appointed to a term of 4 years,
   13  as established by rule of the boards. Council members may not
   14  serve more than two consecutive terms. The council shall
   15  annually elect a chairperson from among its members.
   16         Section 2. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (9) of
   17  section 459.022, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   18         459.022 Physician assistants.—
   19         (9) COUNCIL ON PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS.—The Council on
   20  Physician Assistants is created within the department.
   21         (a) The council shall consist of five members appointed as
   22  follows:
   23         1. The chairperson of the Board of Medicine shall appoint
   24  one member three members who is a physician and member are
   25  physicians and members of the Board of Medicine who supervises.
   26  One of the physicians must supervise a physician assistant in
   27  the physician’s practice.
   28         2. The chairperson of the Board of Osteopathic Medicine
   29  shall appoint one member who is a physician and a member of the
   30  Board of Osteopathic Medicine who supervises a physician
   31  assistant in the physician’s practice.
   32         3. The State Surgeon General or her or his designee shall
   33  appoint three a fully licensed physician assistants assistant
   34  licensed under chapter 458 or this chapter.
   35         4. The membership of the council must reflect the ethnic
   36  and gender diversity of this state.