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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 2128

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11  Senator Forman moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 54, between lines 10 and 11,

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17         Section 44.  Subsection (1) of section 458.337, Florida

18  Statutes, is amended to read:

19         458.337  Reports of disciplinary actions by medical

20  organizations and hospitals.--

21         (1)(a)  The department shall be notified when any

22  physician:

23         1.  Has been removed or suspended or has had any other

24  disciplinary action taken by his or her peers within any

25  professional medical association, society, body, or

26  professional standards review organization established

27  pursuant to Pub. L. No. 92-603, s. 249F, or similarly

28  constituted professional organization, whether or not such

29  association, society, body, or organization is local,

30  regional, state, national, or international in scope; or

31         2.  Has been disciplined by a licensed hospital, health

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 1  maintenance organization, prepaid health clinic, ambulatory

 2  surgical center, or nursing home or the medical staff of such

 3  a hospital, health maintenance organization, prepaid health

 4  clinic, ambulatory surgical center, or nursing home, including

 5  allowing the physician to resign, for any act that constitutes

 6  a violation of this chapter.  If a physician resigns or

 7  withdraws from privileges when such facility notifies the

 8  physician that it is conducting an investigation or inquiry

 9  regarding an act which is potentially a violation of this

10  chapter, the facility shall complete its investigation or

11  inquiry and shall notify the department of the physician's

12  resignation or withdrawal from privileges if the completed

13  investigation or inquiry results in a finding that such act

14  constitutes a violation of this chapter for which the facility

15  would have disciplined the physician or allowed the physician

16  to resign or withdraw from privileges.

17         (b)  Within 20 days of receipt of such notification,

18  the department shall notify all hospitals and health

19  maintenance organizations in the state of any disciplinary

20  action which is severe enough for expulsion or resignation

21  reported pursuant to subparagraph (a)2., identifying the

22  disciplined physician, the action taken, and the reason for

23  such action.

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29  And the title is amended as follows:

30         On page 1, line 24, after the semicolon,

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 2         amending s. 458.337, F.S.; requiring the

 3         Department of Health to notify health

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