HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                               Bill No. CS/HB 1467

    Amendment No. 3 (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Goode offered the following:

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13         Amendment to Amendment (515085) (with title amendment) 

14         On page 107, lines 3 through 14

15  remove from the amendment:  all of said lines

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17  and insert in lieu thereof:

18         Section 81.  Section 483.041, Florida Statutes, is

19  amended to read:

20         483.041  Definitions.--As used in this part, the term:

21         (1)  "Agency" means the Agency for Health Care

22  Administration.

23         (2)  "Clinical laboratory" means the physical location

24  in which one or more of the following services a laboratory

25  where examinations are performed on materials or specimens

26  taken from the human body to provide information or materials

27  for use in the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of a

28  disease or the identification or assessment of a medical or

29  physical condition.

30         (a)  Clinical laboratory services are the examinations

31  of fluids or other materials taken from the human body.

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 1         (b)  Anatomic laboratory services are the examinations

 2  of tissue taken from the human body.

 3         (c)  Cytology laboratory services are the examinations

 4  of cells from individual tissues or fluid taken from the human

 5  body.

 6         (3)  "Clinical laboratory examination" means a

 7  procedure performed to deliver the services defined in

 8  subsection (2), including the oversight or interpretation

 9  thereof.

10         (4)(3)  "Clinical laboratory proficiency testing

11  program" means a program approved by the agency for evaluating

12  the performance of clinical laboratories.

13         (5)(4)  "Collection station" or "branch office" means a

14  facility operated by a clinical laboratory where materials or

15  specimens are withdrawn or collected from patients or

16  assembled after being withdrawn or collected from patients

17  elsewhere, for subsequent delivery to another location for

18  examination.

19         (6)(5)  "Hospital laboratory" means a laboratory

20  located in a hospital licensed under chapter 395 that provides

21  services solely to that hospital and that is owned by the

22  hospital and governed by the hospital medical staff or

23  governing board.

24         (7)(6)  "Licensed practitioner" means a physician

25  licensed under chapter 458, chapter 459, chapter 460, or

26  chapter 461; a dentist licensed under chapter 466; a person

27  licensed under chapter 462; or an advanced registered nurse

28  practitioner licensed under chapter 464 or a duly licensed

29  practitioner from another state licensed under similar

30  statutes who orders examinations on materials or specimens for

31  non residents of the State of Florida, but who reside in the

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 1  same state as the requesting licensed practitioner.

 2         (8)(7)  "Person" means the State of Florida or any

 3  individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation,

 4  county, municipality, political subdivision, or other entity,

 5  whether organized for profit or not.

 6         (9)(8)  "Validation inspection" means an inspection of

 7  a clinical laboratory by the agency to assess whether a review

 8  by an accrediting organization has adequately evaluated the

 9  clinical laboratory according to state standards.

10         (10)(9)  "Waived test" means a test that the federal

11  Health Care Financing Administration has determined qualifies

12  for a certificate of waiver under the federal Clinical

13  Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988, and the federal

14  rules adopted thereunder.

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18  And the title is amended as follows:

19         On page 177, line 19 through 22 after the ";" of the

20  amendment delete all of said lines

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23         amending s. 483.041, F.S., redefining the terms

24         "clinical laboratory" and "licensed

25         practitioner" and defining the term "clinical

26         laboratory examination"; amending s.

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