Senate Bill 1232

    Florida Senate - 1998                                  SB 1232

    By Senator Brown-Waite





    10-1241-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to rulemaking authority of the

  3         Agency for Health Care Administration; amending

  4         s. 408.08, F.S.; authorizing the agency to

  5         adopt rules under which health care facilities

  6         may be granted extensions of deadlines for

  7         filing certain reports; providing an effective

  8         date.

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

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12         Section 1.  Subsection (13) of section 408.08, Florida

13  Statutes, is amended to read:

14         408.08  Inspections and audits; violations; penalties;

15  fines; enforcement.--

16         (13)  Any health care facility that refuses to file a

17  report, fails to timely file a report, files a false report,

18  or files an incomplete report and upon notification fails to

19  timely file a complete report required under this section and

20  s. 408.061; that violates any provision of this section, s.

21  408.061, or s. 408.20, or rule adopted thereunder; or that

22  fails to provide documents or records requested by the agency

23  under the provisions of this chapter shall be punished by a

24  fine not exceeding $1,000 per day for each day in violation,

25  to be imposed and collected by the agency. Pursuant to rules

26  adopted by the agency, the agency may, upon a showing of good

27  cause, grant a one-time extension of any deadline for a health

28  care facility to timely file a report as required by this

29  section, s. 408.061, s. 408.072, or s. 408.20.

30         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

31  law.

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    Florida Senate - 1998                                  SB 1232
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  2                          SENATE SUMMARY

  3    Authorizes the Agency for Health Care Administration to
      adopt rules that allow for a one-time extension of the
  4    deadline for a health care facility to file a financial
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