SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 2220

    Amendment No.    

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11  Senator Saunders moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 69, between lines 9 and 10,

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17         Section 56.  Section 455.601, Florida Statutes, is

18  amended to read:

19         455.601  Hepatitis B or human immunodeficiency

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21         (1)  The department and each appropriate board within

22  the Division of Medical Quality Assurance shall have the

23  authority to establish procedures to handle, counsel, and

24  provide other services to health care professionals within

25  their respective boards who are infected with hepatitis B or

26  the human immunodeficiency virus.

27         (2)  Any person licensed by the department and any

28  other person employed by a health care facility who contracts

29  a blood-borne infection shall have a rebuttable presumption

30  that the illness was contracted in the course and scope of his

31  or her employment, provided that the person, as soon as

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 2220

    Amendment No.    





 1  practicable, reports to the person's supervisor or the

 2  facility's risk manager any significant exposure, as that term

 3  is defined in s. 381.004(2)(c), to blood or body fluids. The

 4  employer may test the blood or body fluid to determine if it

 5  is infected with the same disease contracted by the employee.

 6  The employer may rebut the presumption by the preponderance of

 7  the evidence. Except as expressly provided in this subsection,

 8  there shall be no presumption that a blood-borne infection is

 9  a job-related injury or illness.

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11  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)

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15  And the title is amended as follows:

16         On page 1, line 2, delete that line

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19         An act relating to health care; amending s.

20         455.601, F.S.; providing, for purposes of

21         workers' compensation, a rebuttable presumption

22         relating to blood-borne infections;

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