Senate Bill sb0684e1

    CS for SB 684                                  First Engrossed



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to organ transplantation;

  3         providing for the Agency for Health Care

  4         Administration to create the Organ Transplant

  5         Task Force to study organ transplantation

  6         programs; requiring the task force to study and

  7         make recommendations on the necessity of the

  8         issuance of certificates of need for such

  9         programs and funding for organ transplantation;

10         providing a date for the task force to report

11         to the Governor and the Legislature; providing

12         an effective date.

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

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16         Section 1.  (1)(a)  The Agency for Health Care

17  Administration shall create an Organ Transplant Task Force

18  within the Agency for Health Care Administration, which task

19  force must be funded by existing agency funds.

20         (b)  Task force participants shall be responsible for

21  only the expenses that they generate individually through

22  participation. The agency shall be responsible for expenses

23  incidental to the production of any required data or reports.

24         (2)  The task force shall consist of up to 15 members.

25  The task force chairperson shall be selected by majority vote

26  of a quorum present. Eight members shall constitute a quorum.

27  The membership shall include, but not be limited to, a balance

28  of members representing the Agency for Health Care

29  Administration, health care facilities that have existing

30  organ transplantation programs, individual organ transplant

31  health care practitioners, pediatric organ transplantation


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    CS for SB 684                                  First Engrossed



  1  programs, organ procurement agencies, and organ transplant

  2  recipients or family members.

  3         (3)  The task force shall meet for the purpose of

  4  studying and making recommendations regarding current and

  5  future supply of organs in relation to the number of existing

  6  organ transplantation programs and the future necessity of the

  7  issuance of a certificate of need for proposed organ

  8  transplantation programs. At a minimum, the task force shall

  9  submit a report to the Legislature which includes a summary of

10  the method of allocation and distribution of organs; a list of

11  facilities performing multiple organ transplants and the

12  number being performed; the number of Medicaid and charity

13  care patients who have received organ transplants by existing

14  organ transplant programs; suggested mechanisms for funding

15  organ transplants, which shall include, but need not limited

16  to, an organ transplant trust fund for the treatment of

17  Medicaid and charity patients; the impact of trends in health

18  care delivery and financing on organ transplantation; and the

19  number of certificates of need applications reviewed by the

20  Agency for Health Care Administration in the last 5 years,

21  including the number approved or denied and the number

22  litigated.

23         (4)  The task force shall meet at the call of the

24  chairperson. The task force shall submit a report to the

25  Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the

26  House of Representatives by January 15, 2002. The task force

27  is abolished effective December 31, 2002.

28         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.

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