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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 2438

    Amendment No.    

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11  Senator Campbell moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 16, between lines 26 and 27,

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17         Section 7.  Subsection (3) of section 641.315, Florida

18  Statutes, is amended to read:

19         641.315  Provider contracts.--

20         (3)  No provider of services or any representative of

21  such provider shall collect or attempt to collect from an HMO

22  subscriber any money for services covered by an HMO, and no

23  provider or representative of such provider may maintain any

24  action at law against a subscriber of an HMO to collect money

25  owed to such provider by an HMO. The Agency for Health Care

26  Administration and the Department of Health shall develop

27  rules for sanctioning providers or their representatives who

28  engage in this practice.

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30  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

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 2  And the title is amended as follows:

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 6         amending s. 641.315, F.S.; requiring the Agency

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 8         Department of Health to develop rules for

 9         sanctioning violations of s. 641.315(3), F.S.;

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