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SENATE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 2128
Amendment No.
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11 Senator Gutman moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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17 Section 242. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of
18 section 458.3155, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
19 458.3115 Restricted license; certain foreign-licensed
20 physicians; United States Medical Licensing Examination
21 (USMLE) or agency-developed examination; restrictions on
22 practice; full licensure.--
23 (1)(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
24 agency shall provide procedures under which certain physicians
25 who are or were foreign-licensed and have practiced medicine
26 no less than 2 years may take the USMLE or an agency-developed
27 examination to qualify for a restricted license to practice
28 medicine in this state. The agency and board-developed
29 examination shall test the same areas of medical knowledge as
30 the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States,
31 Inc. (FLEX) previously administered by the Florida Board of
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1 Medicine to grant medical licensure in Florida. Said
2 examination shall be in the same form and content and shall be
3 administered in the same manner as the FLEX. The
4 agency-developed examination must be made available no later
5 than December 31 September 1, 1998, to a physician who
6 qualifies for licensure. A person who is eligible to take and
7 elects to take the agency and board-developed examination, who
8 has previously passed part 1 or part 2 of the previously
9 administered FLEX shall not be required to retake or pass the
10 equivalent parts of the agency-developed examination, and may
11 sit for the agency and board-developed examination five times
12 within 5 years.
13 Section 243. The sum of $1.2 million from the
14 unallocated balance in the Medical Quality Assurance Trust
15 Fund is appropriated to the Department of Health to allow the
16 department to develop the examination required for foreign
17 licensed physicians in section 458.3115(1)(a), Florida
18 Statutes, through a contract with the University of South
19 Florida. The department shall charge examinees a fee that, in
20 the aggregate, will reimburse the Medical Quality Assurance
21 Trust Fund for the amount advanced to the department under
22 this section. This section expires July 1, 1999.
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28 And the title is amended as follows:
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2 Health to develop the examination required for
3 foreign-licensed physicians; providing
4 examination fees; providing an expiration date;
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