House Bill 3127c1

    Florida House of Representatives - 1998             CS/HB 3127

        By the Committee on Health Care Standards & Regulatory
    Reform and Representatives Boyd, Dawson-White, Dockery, Smith,
    Saunders, Bullard, Mackey, Tobin, Heyman, Wiles, Barreiro,
    Minton, Posey, Maygarden, Effman, Brown, Jacobs, Argenziano,
    (Additional Sponsors on Last Printed Page)


  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to regulation of professionals;

  3         amending s. 455.624, F.S.; specifying health

  4         care professionals for whom failure to wear

  5         certain identification while offering services

  6         to the public is grounds for certain

  7         disciplinary actions; providing an exemption;

  8         providing an effective date.

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

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12         Section 1.  Paragraph (t) is added to subsection (1) of

13  section 455.624, Florida Statutes, to read:

14         455.624  Grounds for discipline; penalties;

15  enforcement.--

16         (1)  The following acts shall constitute grounds for

17  which the disciplinary actions specified in subsection (2) may

18  be taken:

19         (t)  Failing to wear identification, which shall be

20  conspicuously displayed and legible, indicating the

21  practitioner's name and professional title authorized pursuant

22  to chapter 457; chapter 458; chapter 459; chapter 460; chapter

23  461; chapter 462; chapter 463; chapter 464; chapter 465;

24  chapter 466; part I, part III, part V, part X, or part XIV of

25  chapter 468; chapter 480; part III or part IV of chapter 483;

26  chapter 486; chapter 490; or chapter 491, while practicing as

27  an employee or operator of a hospital, clinic, group practice,

28  or multiprofessional facility, or at a commercial

29  establishment, offering health care services to the public.

30  Disciplinary actions for violation of this paragraph shall be

31  restricted to those provided in paragraphs (2)(e) and (g).

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CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida House of Representatives - 1998             CS/HB 3127

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  1  Physicians licensed pursuant to chapter 458, chapter 459,

  2  chapter 460, or chapter 461 are exempt from this paragraph

  3  while practicing in a clinic, group practice, or

  4  multiprofessional facility.

  5         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1 of the

  6  year in which enacted.

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    Ziebarth, Turnbull, Culp, Kosmas, Fischer, D. Prewitt, Diaz de
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    la Portilla, Rojas, Reddick, Greene, Lynn, Wise, Ritter,
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    Betancourt, Fuller, Morroni, Fasano, Dennis, Hill, Arnall,
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    Stafford, Hafner, Horan, Chestnut, Sanderson and Eggelletion
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