Senate Bill 0864

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    Florida Senate - 2000                                   SB 864

    By Senator Klein





    28-616-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to health maintenance

  3         contracts; amending s. 641.31, F.S.; requiring

  4         such contracts to allow subscribers to choose

  5         their physicians; providing an effective date.

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  7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  9         Section 1.  Subsection (39) is added to section 641.31,

10  Florida Statutes, to read:

11         641.31  Health maintenance contracts.--

12         (39)  A health maintenance contract must give a

13  subscriber the right to select a physician of the subscriber's

14  choice.

15         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.

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18                          SENATE SUMMARY

19    Requires health maintenance contracts to give subscribers
      the right to choose their physicians.
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