HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                     Bill No. CS/HB 1659, 1st Eng.

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Casey offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

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17         Section 1.  Paragraph (e) of subsection (5) section

18  408.039, Florida Statutes, is redesignated as paragraph (f)

19  and a new paragraph (e) is added to subsection (5) of said

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21         408.039  Review process.--The review process for

22  certificates of need shall be as follows:

23         (e)  A hospital may initiate or intervene in an

24  administrative proceeding involving the issuance or denial of

25  a certificate of need for an organ transplantation program

26  upon a showing that an established organ transplantation

27  program at the hospital will be substantially affected by the

28  issuance of the certificate of need to a competing program or

29  facility within the same service planning area delineated

30  under rules adopted by the Agency for Health Care

31  Administration; provided however, that this provisions shall

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                     Bill No. CS/HB 1659, 1st Eng.

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)





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 6  And the title is amended as follows:

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11         amending s. 408.039, F.S.; providing that a

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