HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                        Bill No. HB 1625, 1st Eng.

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Wasserman Schultz offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

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17         Section 1.  Subsection (5) is added to section 401.252,

18  Florida Statutes, to read:

19         401.252  Interfacility transfer.--

20         (5)  A licensed basic or advanced life support provider

21  shall not be required to obtain a certificate of public

22  convenience and necessity from a county, which has a

23  population greater than 1.5 million and is not a

24  constitutional charter county, in order to provide

25  interfacility transfers, nor shall any state license preclude

26  the provision of interfacility transfers so long as the

27  licensed basic and advanced life support provider meets the

28  requirements of this section.

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                        Bill No. HB 1625, 1st Eng.

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)





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 2  And the title is amended as follows:

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 6         amending s. 401.252, F.S.; exempting certain

 7         life support providers from certain

 8         certification requirements in certain counties;

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