SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 1028

    Amendment No.    

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11  Senator Sullivan moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 20, between lines 12 and 13,

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17         Section 9.  Section 483.824, Florida Statutes, is

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19         483.824  Qualifications of clinical laboratory

20  director.--A clinical laboratory director must have 4 years of

21  clinical laboratory experience with 2 years of experience in

22  the specialty to be directed or be nationally board certified

23  in the specialty to be directed, and must meet one of the

24  following requirements:

25         (1)  Be a physician licensed under chapter 458 or

26  chapter 459;

27         (2)  Hold an earned doctoral degree in a chemical,

28  physical, or biological science from a regionally accredited

29  institution and maintain national certification requirements

30  equal to those required by the federal Health Care Financing

31  Administration be nationally certified; or

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 1028

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 1         (3)  For the subspecialty of oral pathology, be a

 2  physician licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459 or a

 3  dentist licensed under chapter 466.

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 9  And the title is amended as follows:

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13         amending s. 483.824, F.S.; revising

14         qualifications of clinical laboratory

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