SENATE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 1558, 1st Eng.
Amendment No. ___ Barcode 255354
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11 Senator Wasserman Schultz moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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17 Section 52. Subsection (3) of section 456.031, Florida
18 Statutes, is amended to read:
19 456.031 Requirement for instruction on domestic
20 violence.--
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22 (a) In lieu of completing a course as required in
23 subsection (1), a licensee or certificateholder may complete a
24 course in end-of-life care and palliative health care, if the
25 licensee or certificateholder has completed an approved
26 domestic violence course in the immediately preceding
27 biennium.
28 (b) In lieu of completing a course as required by
29 subsection (1), a person licensed under chapter 466, who has
30 completed an approved domestic-violence education course in
31 the immediately preceding 2 years may complete a course
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SENATE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 1558, 1st Eng.
Amendment No. ___ Barcode 255354
1 approved by the Board of Dentistry.
2 Section 53. Subsection (9) of section 456.033, Florida
3 Statutes, is amended to read:
4 456.033 Requirement for instruction for certain
5 licensees on human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune
6 deficiency syndrome.--
7 (9)(a) In lieu of completing a course as required in
8 subsection (1), the licensee may complete a course in
9 end-of-life care and palliative health care, so long as the
10 licensee completed an approved AIDS/HIV course in the
11 immediately preceding biennium.
12 (b) In lieu of completing a course as required by
13 subsection (1), a person licensed under chapter 466 who has
14 completed an approved AIDS/HIV course in the immediately
15 preceding 2 years may complete a course approved by the Board
16 of Dentistry.
17 Section 54. Subsection (9) is added to section
18 627.419, Florida Statutes, to read:
19 627.419 Construction of policies.--
20 (9) With respect to any group or individual insurer
21 covering dental services, each claimant, or dentist acting for
22 a claimant, who has had a claim denied as not medically or
23 dentally necessary or who has had a claim payment based on an
24 alternate dental service in accordance with accepted dental
25 standards for adequate and appropriate care must be provided
26 an opportunity for an appeal to the insurer's licensed dentist
27 who is responsible for the medical necessity reviews under the
28 plan or is a member of the plan's peer review group. The
29 appeal may be by telephone, and the insurer's dentist must
30 respond within a reasonable time, not to exceed 15 business
31 days.
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SENATE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 1558, 1st Eng.
Amendment No. ___ Barcode 255354
1 Section 55. The amendments to section 627.419, Florida
2 Statutes, made by this act shall apply to policies issued or
3 renewed after July 1, 2001.
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9 And the title is amended as follows:
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13 amending s. 627.419, F.S.; providing for
14 appeals from certain adverse determinations
15 relating to dental service claims; amending s.
16 456.031, F.S.; providing an alternative by
17 which licensees under ch. 466, F.S., may comply
18 with a general requirement that they take
19 domestic-violence education courses; amending
20 s. 456.033, F.S.; providing an alternative by
21 which such licensees may comply with a general
22 requirement that they take AIDS/HIV education
23 courses;
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