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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 2220

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11  Senator Gutman moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

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17         Section 56.  Subsection (6) of section 455.564, Florida

18  Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:

19         455.564  Department; general licensing provisions.--

20         (6)  As a condition of renewal of a license, the Board

21  of Medicine, the Board of Osteopathic Medicine, the Board of

22  Chiropractic Medicine, and the Board of Podiatric Medicine

23  shall each require licensees which they respectively regulate

24  to periodically demonstrate their professional competency by

25  completing at least 40 hours of continuing education every 2

26  years, which may include up to 1 hour of risk management or

27  cost containment and up to 2 hours of other topics related to

28  the applicable medical specialty, if required by board rule.

29  The boards may require by rule that up to 1 hour of the

30  required 40 or more hours be in the area of risk management or

31  cost containment; but this provision does not limit the number

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 1  of hours that a licensee may obtain in risk management or cost

 2  containment to be credited towards satisfying the 40 or more

 3  required hours and does not require the boards to impose any

 4  requirement on licensees except for the completion of at least

 5  40 hours of continuing education every 2 years.  Each of such

 6  boards shall determine whether any specific continuing

 7  education course requirements not otherwise mandated by law

 8  shall be mandated and shall approve criteria for, and the

 9  content of, any continuing education course mandated by such

10  board. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board,

11  or the department when there is no board, may approve by rule

12  alternative methods of obtaining continuing education credits

13  in risk management. The alternative methods may include

14  attending a board meeting at which another a licensee is

15  disciplined, serving as a volunteer expert witness for the

16  department in a disciplinary case, or serving as a member of a

17  probable cause panel following the expiration of a board

18  member's term. Other boards within the Division of Medical

19  Quality Assurance, or the department if there is no board, may

20  adopt rules granting continuing education hours in risk

21  management for attending a board meeting at which another

22  licensee is disciplined, serving as a volunteer expert witness

23  for the department in a disciplinary case, or serving as a

24  member of a probable cause panel following the expiration of a

25  board member's term.

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31  And the title is amended as follows:

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