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11 Senator Clary moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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17 Section 2. Subsection (1) of section 458.345, Florida
18 Statutes, is amended to read:
19 458.345 Registration of resident physicians, interns,
20 and fellows; list of hospital employees; prescribing of
21 medicinal drugs; penalty.--
22 (1) Any person desiring to practice as a resident
23 physician, assistant resident physician, house physician,
24 intern, or fellow in fellowship training which leads to
25 subspecialty board certification in this state or any person
26 desiring to practice as a resident physician, assistant
27 resident physician, house physician, intern or fellow in
28 fellowship training in a teaching hospital, as defined in s.
29 408.07(44) or s. 395.805(2), who does not hold a valid, active
30 license issued under this chapter shall apply to the
31 department to be registered and shall remit a fee not to
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1 exceed $300 as set by the board. The department shall
2 register any applicant the board certifies has met the
3 following requirements:
4 (a) Is at least 21 years of age.
5 (b) Has not committed any act or offense within or
6 without the state which would constitute the basis for refusal
7 to certify an application for licensure pursuant to s.
8 458.331.
9 (c) Is a graduate of a medical school or college as
10 specified in s. 458.311(1)(f).
11 (2) The board shall not certify to the department for
12 registration any applicant who is under investigation in any
13 state or jurisdiction for an act which would constitute the
14 basis for imposing a disciplinary penalty specified in s.
15 458.331(2)(b) until such time as the investigation is
16 completed, at which time the provisions of s. 458.331 shall
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18 (3) Every hospital or teaching hospital employing or
19 utilizing the services of a resident physician, assistant
20 resident physician, house physician, intern, or fellow in
21 fellowship training registered under this section which leads
22 to subspecialty board certification shall designate a person
23 who shall, on dates designated by the board, in consultation
24 with the department, furnish the department with a list of
25 such the hospital's employees and such other information as
26 the board may direct. The chief executive officer of each
27 such hospital shall provide the executive director of the
28 board with the name, title, and address of the person
29 responsible for furnishing such reports.
30 (4) Registration under this section shall
31 automatically expire after 2 years without further action by
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1 the board or the department unless an application for renewal
2 is approved by the board. No person registered under this
3 section may be employed or utilized as a house physician or
4 act as a resident physician, an assistant resident physician,
5 an intern, or a fellow in fellowship training which leads to a
6 subspecialty board certification in a hospital or teaching
7 hospital of this state for more than 2 years without a valid,
8 active license or renewal of registration under this section.
9 Requirements for renewal of registration shall be established
10 by rule of the board. An application fee not to exceed $300
11 as set by the board shall accompany the application for
12 renewal, except that resident physicians, assistant resident
13 physicians, interns, and fellows in fellowship training
14 registered under this section are which leads to subspecialty
15 board certification shall be exempt from payment of any
16 renewal fees.
17 (5) Notwithstanding any provision of this section or
18 s. 120.52 to the contrary, any person who is registered under
19 this section is subject to the provisions of s. 458.331.
20 (6) A person registered as a resident physician under
21 this section may in the normal course of his or her employment
22 prescribe medicinal drugs described in schedules set out in
23 chapter 893 when:
24 (a) The person prescribes such medicinal drugs through
25 use of a Drug Enforcement Administration number issued to the
26 hospital or teaching hospital by which the person is employed
27 or at which the person's services are used;
28 (b) The person is identified by a discrete suffix to
29 the identification number issued to such the hospital; and
30 (c) The use of the institutional identification number
31 and individual suffixes conforms to the requirements of the
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1 federal Drug Enforcement Administration.
2 (7) Any person willfully violating this section
3 commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as
4 provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
5 (8) The board shall adopt rules to implement this
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12 And the title is amended as follows:
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16 amending s. 458.345, F.S.; providing for the
17 registration of certain unlicensed physicians
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