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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                Bill No. CS/HB 891

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Horan offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 3, between lines 27-28,

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17         Section 3.  Subsection (6) is added to section 395.701,

18  Florida Statutes, to read:

19         395.701  Annual assessments on net operating revenues

20  to fund public medical assistance; administrative fines for

21  failure to pay assessments when due; exemption.--

22         (6)  Outpatient radiation therapy services provided by

23  hospitals subject to this section are exempt from the

24  provisions of this section.

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28  And the title is amended as follows:

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

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 1         exempting outpatient radiation therapy services

 2         provided by certain hospitals from the annual

 3         assessment on net operating revenues of such

 4         hospitals; amending s. 395.7015, F.S.; removing

 5         freestanding radiation therapy centers from the

 6         annual assessment on net operating revenues of

 7         certain health care entities; providing an

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