Senate Bill 0932

    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 932

    By Senator Brown-Waite





    10-582-98                                               See HB

  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 disciplinary

  7         action; providing an effective date.

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

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

12  section 455.624, Florida Statutes, to read:

13         455.624  Grounds for discipline; penalties;

14  enforcement.--

15         (1)  The following acts shall constitute grounds for

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

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

19  conspicuously displayed and legible, indicating the

20  practitioner's name and professional title authorized pursuant

21  to chapter 457; chapter 458; chapter 459; chapter 460; chapter

22  461; chapter 462; chapter 463; chapter 464; chapter 465;

23  chapter 466; part I, part III, part V, or part X of chapter

24  468; chapter 486; chapter 490; or chapter 491, while

25  practicing as an employee or operator of a hospital, clinic,

26  group practice, or multiprofessional facility, or at a

27  commercial establishment, offering health care services to the

28  public.

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

30  year in which enacted.

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    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 932
    10-582-98                                               See HB




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      Provides that failure by certain types of health care
  4    practitioners to wear conspicuous and legible
      identification while offering health care services to the
  5    public is grounds for disciplinary action.

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