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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 2242, 1st Eng.

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11  Senator Thomas moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 26 between lines 25 and 26,

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17         Section 28.  Effective upon becoming law and

18  retroactive to January 1, 1996, subsection (4) is added to

19  section 458.319, Florida Statutes, to read:

20         458.319  Renewal of license.--

21         (4)(a)  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter

22  or part II, chapter 455, the requirements for the biennial

23  renewal of the license of any licensee who is a member of the

24  Legislature shall stand continued and extended without the

25  requirement of any filing by such a licensee of any notice or

26  application for renewal with the board or the department and

27  such licensee's license shall be an active status license

28  under this chapter, throughout the period that the licensee is

29  a member of the Legislature and for a period of 60 days after

30  the licensee ceases to be a member of the Legislature.

31         (b)  At any time during the licensee's legislative term

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 1  of office and during the period of 60 days after the licensee

 2  ceases to be a member of the Legislature, the licensee may

 3  file a completed renewal application that shall consist solely

 4  of:

 5         1.  A license renewal fee of $250 for each year the

 6  licensee's license renewal has been continued and extended

 7  pursuant to the terms of this subsection since the last

 8  otherwise regularly scheduled biennial renewal year and each

 9  year during which the renewed license shall be effective until

10  the next regularly scheduled biennial renewal date;

11         2.  Documentation of the completion by the licensee of

12  10 hours of continuing medical education credits for each year

13  from the effective date of the last renewed license for the

14  licensee until the year in which the application is filed;

15         3.  The information from the licensee expressly

16  required in s. 455.565(1)(a)1.-8. and (b), and (4)(a), (b),

17  and (c),

18         (c)  The department and board may not impose any

19  additional requirements for the renewal of such licenses and,

20  not later than 20 days after receipt of a completed

21  application as specified in paragraph (b), shall renew the

22  active status license of the licensee, effective on and

23  retroactive to the last previous renewal date of the

24  licensee's license. Said license renewal shall be valid until

25  the next regularly scheduled biennial renewal date for said

26  license, and thereafter shall be subject to the biennial

27  requirements for renewal in this chapter and chapter 455, part

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 2  And the title is amended as follows:

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 6         amending s. 458.319, F.S.; providing that

 7         renewal of medical licenses of members of the

 8         Legislature shall be continued during term of

 9         legislative office; requiring the completion of

10         continuing medical education and payment of

11         fees for renewal of such licenses; providing

12         the period during which such licenses may be

13         renewed;  providing the period during which

14         such renewed licenses shall be valid; providing

15         for the subsequent renewal of such licenses;

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