SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. SB 2422

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11  Senator Silver moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 1, line 9,

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17         Section 1.  Subsection (3) of section 395.002, Florida

18  Statutes, is amended to read:

19         395.002  Definitions.--As used in this chapter:

20         (3)  "Ambulatory surgical center" or "mobile surgical

21  facility" means a facility the primary purpose of which is to

22  provide elective surgical care, in which the patient is

23  admitted to and discharged from such facility within a 24 hour

24  period the same working day and is not permitted to stay

25  overnight, and which is not part of a hospital. However, a

26  facility existing for the primary purpose of performing

27  terminations of pregnancy, an office maintained by a physician

28  for the practice of medicine, or an office maintained for the

29  practice of dentistry shall not be construed to be an

30  ambulatory surgical center, provided that any facility or

31  office which is certified or seeks certification as a Medicare

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. SB 2422

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 1  ambulatory surgical center shall be licensed as an ambulatory

 2  surgical center pursuant to s. 395.003. Any structure or

 3  vehicle in which a physician maintains an office and practices

 4  surgery, and which can appear to the public to be a mobile

 5  office because the structure or vehicle operates at more than

 6  one address, shall be construed to be a mobile surgical

 7  facility.

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 9  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)

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13  And the title is amended as follows:

14         On page 1, line 2, after the semicolon

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17         amending s. 395.002, F.S.; redefining the term

18         "ambulatory surgical center";

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