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SENATE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 2502
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11 Senator Gutman moved the following amendment:
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17 Section 6. In order to implement Specific
18 Appropriation 474 of the 1998-1999 General Appropriations Act,
19 the sum of $2 million is transferred from the unallocated
20 balance in the Medical Quality Assurance Trust Fund to the
21 Department of Health to allow the department to develop the
22 examination required for foreign-licensed physicians in
23 section 458.3115(1)(a), Florida Statutes, through a contract
24 with the University of South Florida. The department shall
25 charge examinees a fee that, in the aggregate, will reimburse
26 the Medical Quality Assurance Trust Fund for the amount
27 advanced to the department under this section. This section
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29 Section 7. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section
30 458.3115, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
31 458.3115 Restricted license; certain foreign-licensed
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1 physicians; United States Medical Licensing Examination
2 (USMLE) or agency-developed examination; restrictions on
3 practice; full licensure.--
4 (1)(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
5 agency shall provide procedures under which certain physicians
6 who are or were foreign-licensed and have practiced medicine
7 no less than 2 years may take the USMLE or an agency-developed
8 examination to qualify for a restricted license to practice
9 medicine in this state. The agency and board-developed
10 examination shall test the same areas of medical knowledge as
11 the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States,
12 Inc. (FLEX) previously administered by the Florida Board of
13 Medicine to grant medical licensure in Florida. Said
14 examination shall be in the same form and content and shall be
15 administered in the same manner as the FLEX. The
16 agency-developed examination must be made available no later
17 than September 1, 1999 1998, to a physician who qualifies for
18 licensure. A person who is eligible to take and elects to take
19 the agency and board-developed examination, who has previously
20 passed part 1 or part 2 of the previously administered FLEX
21 shall not be required to retake or pass the equivalent parts
22 of the agency-developed examination, and may sit for the
23 agency and board-developed examination five times within 5
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30 And the title is amended as follows:
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2 providing an advance of funds from the Medical
3 Quality Assurance Trust Fund to the Department
4 of Health to allow the department to develop an
5 examination for foreign-licensed physicians;
6 providing for reimbursement of the trust fund
7 through examination fees; amending s. 458.3115,
8 F.S.; changing the date for availability of the
9 examination for foreign-licensed physicians;
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