SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. Proposed CS for SB 2456

    Amendment No.    

                            CHAMBER ACTION
              Senate                               House
                                   .
                                   .
 1                                 .
                                   .
 2                                 .
                                   .
 3                                 .
                                   .
 4                                                                

 5

 6

 7

 8

 9

10                                                                

11  Senator Sullivan moved the following amendment:

12

13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 7, between lines 27 and 28,

15

16  insert:

17         (9)  ANNUAL REPORT.--The Board of Regents, the

18  Executive Office of the Governor, the Department of Health,

19  and the Agency for Health Care Administration shall

20  collaborate to establish a committee that shall produce an

21  annual report on graduate medical education. To the maximum

22  extent feasible, the committee shall have the same membership

23  as the Graduate Medical Education Study Committee, established

24  by the proviso accompanying Specific Appropriation 191 of the

25  fiscal year 1999-2000 General Appropriations Act. The report

26  shall be provided to the Governor, the President of the

27  Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by

28  January 15 of each year. Committee members shall serve without

29  compensation. From the funds provided in s. 381.0403(3), the

30  committee may expend a maximum of $75,000 per year to provide

31  for administrative costs and contractual services. The report

                                  1
    10:58 AM   04/26/00                             s2456c1c-22j05




                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. Proposed CS for SB 2456

    Amendment No.    





 1  must address the following topics:

 2         (a)  The role of residents and medical faculty in the

 3  provision of health care.

 4         (b)  The relationship of graduate medical education to

 5  the state's physician workforce.

 6         (c)  The costs of training medical residents for

 7  hospitals, medical schools, teaching hospitals, including all

 8  hospital-medical affiliations, practice plans at all of the

 9  medical schools, and municipalities.

10         (d)  The availability and adequacy of all sources of

11  revenue to support graduate medical education. The report must

12  also recommend alternative sources of funding for graduate

13  medical education.

14         (e)  The use of state and federal appropriated funds

15  for graduate medical education by hospitals receiving such

16  funds.

17

18

19  ================ T I T L E   A M E N D M E N T ===============

20  And the title is amended as follows:

21         On page 1, line 10, after the first semicolon,

22

23  insert:

24         providing for a committee to be established to

25         produce an annual report on graduate medical

26         education; specifying topics to be included in

27         the report;

28

29

30

31

                                  2
    10:58 AM   04/26/00                             s2456c1c-22j05