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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                  Bill No. HB 1971

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Bitner offered the following:

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13         Substitute Amendment for Amendment (155337) (with title

14  amendment) 

15         On page 47, between lines 12 and 13 of the bill

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17  insert:   (9)  Any attorneys' fees awarded in a civil action

18  under s. 400.023 and any costs awarded for expert witness fees

19  in such an action, against a nursing facility that was, at the

20  time the action was brought, designated as a Gold Seal

21  facility pursuant to this section, shall not exceed in the

22  aggregate a total of $50,000 unless the court determines that

23  the facility has acted in bad faith, with malicious intent,

24  and that there was a complete absence of a justiciable issue

25  of either law or fact.

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29  And the title is amended as follows:

30         On page 3, line 21, after the semicolon

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

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