Senate Bill 1728

    Florida Senate - 1998                                  SB 1728

    By Senator Bronson





    18-923-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to mobile surgical facilities;

  3         creating s. 395.0164, F.S.; prescribing the

  4         characteristics of such facilities; providing

  5         that such facilities that contract with the

  6         Department of Corrections are exempt from

  7         certain licensing and construction requirements

  8         and may serve only inmates; allowing such

  9         facilities to provide medical care to the

10         public during state or national emergencies;

11         providing an effective date.

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

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15         Section 1.  Section 395.0164, Florida Statutes, is

16  created to read:

17         395.0164  Mobile surgical facilities.--

18         (1)  A mobile surgical facility is a semitrailer as

19  defined in s. 316.003 in which licensed medical professionals

20  provide surgical procedures. It is not an ambulatory surgical

21  center.

22         (2)  A mobile surgical facility that has a contract

23  with the Department of Corrections to provide medical services

24  is exempt from the licensing and construction requirements of

25  chapter 395. A mobile surgical facility that is exempted from

26  regulation under this section may serve only inmates who are

27  subject to oversight by the Department of Corrections.

28         (3)  A mobile surgical facility may be used to provide

29  medical care to the public during a state or national

30  emergency, as the term "emergency" is defined in s. 252.34.

31         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1998.

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    Florida Senate - 1998                                  SB 1728
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  3    Prescribes the characteristics of mobile surgical
      facilities. Provides that such facilities that contract
  4    with the Department of Corrections are exempt from
      certain licensing and construction requirements and may
  5    serve only inmates. Allows such facilities to provide
      medical care to the public during state or national
  6    emergencies.

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