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 to Amendment (407060) 
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    3         Delete lines 17 - 45
    4  and insert:
    5         4. The membership of the council must reflect the ethnic
    6  and gender diversity of this state.
    7         (b) At least two of the members appointed to the council
    8  must be physicians who supervise physician assistants in their
    9  practice. Members shall be appointed to terms of 4 years, except
   10  that of the initial appointments, two members shall be appointed
   11  to terms of 2 years, two members shall be appointed to terms of
   12  3 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. For any
   16  given year, if the election of a chairperson ends in a tie vote,
   17  the State Surgeon General shall select the chairperson from
   18  among the council members.
   19         Section 2. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (9) of
   20  section 459.022, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   21         459.022 Physician assistants.—
   22         (9) COUNCIL ON PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS.—The Council on
   23  Physician Assistants is created within the department.
   24         (a) The council shall consist of six five members appointed
   25  as follows:
   26         1. The chairperson of the Board of Medicine shall appoint
   27  two three members who are physicians and members of the Board of
   28  Medicine. At least one of the physicians must supervise a
   29  physician assistant in the physician’s practice.
   30         2. The chairperson of the Board of Osteopathic Medicine
   31  shall appoint one member who is a physician and a member of the
   32  Board of Osteopathic Medicine.
   33         3. The State Surgeon General or her or his designee shall
   34  appoint three a fully licensed physician assistants assistant
   35  licensed under chapter 458 or this chapter.
   36         4. The membership of the council must reflect the ethnic
   37  and gender diversity of this state.