Senate Bill sb0688c1

    Florida Senate - 2001                            CS for SB 688

    By the Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care





    317-1593-01

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to health care; requiring the

  3         Agency for Health Care Administration to

  4         convene an interagency workgroup to study

  5         issues pertaining to certain background

  6         screening requirements for health care

  7         professionals and owners, operators, and

  8         employees of certain health care providers,

  9         services, and programs; providing for

10         composition of the workgroup; requiring a

11         report; repealing s. 71(1) of ch. 98-171, Laws

12         of Florida; abrogating the repeal of provisions

13         of law which require background screening of

14         applicants for licensure, certification, or

15         registration; providing an effective date.

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

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19         Section 1.  (1)  The Agency for Health Care

20  Administration shall convene an interagency workgroup to study

21  ways to establish the uniform requirements for background

22  screening of applicants for licensure, certification, or

23  registration of health care professionals and for owners,

24  operators, and employees of health care providers, services,

25  and programs that are regulated by the agency and subject to

26  background-screening requirements. The workgroup shall review

27  chapter 435, Florida Statutes, and propose revisions to the

28  list of criminal offenses, specify appropriate statutes of

29  limitation for offenses leading to disqualification, and

30  identify additional civil actions that should be considered as

31  disqualifying.

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    Florida Senate - 2001                            CS for SB 688
    317-1593-01




  1         (2)  The interagency workgroup shall, at a minimum,

  2  include a representative of:

  3         (a)  The Office of Statewide Prosecution;

  4         (b)  The Attorney General;

  5         (c)  The Department of Children and Family Services;

  6         (d)  The Department of Health;

  7         (e)  The Department of Elderly Affairs;

  8         (f)  The Senate as appointed by the President of the

  9  Senate; and

10         (g)  The House of Representatives as appointed by the

11  Speaker of the House of Representatives.

12         (3)  The workgroup shall complete its study and review

13  by November 1, 2001, and shall submit a report of its findings

14  and recommendations to the Governor, the President of the

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

16  December 1, 2001, after which, the workgroup is abolished.

17         Section 2.  Subsection (1) of section 71 of chapter

18  98-171, Laws of Florida, is repealed.

19         Section 3.  This act shall take effect June 1, 2001.

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21          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
22                         Senate Bill 688

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24  Adds three persons to the interagency workgroup: a
    representative from the Department of Health, a representative
25  from the Senate to be appointed by the President of the
    Senate, and a representative from the House of Representatives
26  to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of
    Representatives.
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