HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                               Bill No. CS/HB 1659

    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) 

14         On page 80, between lines 23 and 24,

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17         Section 43.  Subsection (5) is added to section

18  401.252, 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 in order to provide

23  interfacility transfers, nor shall any state license preclude

24  the provision of interfacility transfers so long as the

25  licensed basic and advanced life support provider meets the

26  requirements of this section.

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30  And the title is amended as follows:

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                               Bill No. CS/HB 1659

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)





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 2         amending s. 401.252, F.S.; providing that

 3         certain life support providers shall not be

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 5         convenience and necessity under certain

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