HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS/HB 771 Barcode 754035
Amendment No. 01 (for drafter's use only)
CHAMBER ACTION
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11 The Council for Healthy Communities offered the following:
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13 Amendment (with title amendment)
14 Remove from the bill: Everything after the enacting clause
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17 Section 1. Section 15 of chapter 2000-318, Laws of
18 Florida, is amended to read:
19 Section 15.
20 (1)(a) There is created a certificate-of-need
21 workgroup staffed by the Agency for Health Care
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23 (b) Workgroup participants shall be responsible for
24 only the expenses that they generate individually through
25 workgroup participation. The agency shall be responsible for
26 expenses incidental to the production of any required data or
27 reports.
28 (2) The workgroup shall consist of 32 30 members, 10
29 appointed by the Governor, 11 10 appointed by the President of
30 the Senate, and 11 10 appointed by the Speaker of the House of
31 Representatives. The workgroup chairperson shall be selected
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1 by majority vote of a quorum present. Sixteen members shall
2 constitute a quorum. The membership shall include, but not be
3 limited to, representatives from health care provider
4 organizations, health care facilities, individual health care
5 practitioners, local health councils, and consumer
6 organizations, and persons with health care market expertise
7 as a private-sector consultant.
8 (3) Appointment to the workgroup shall be as follows:
9 (a) The Governor shall appoint one representative each
10 from the hospital industry; nursing home industry; hospice
11 industry; local health councils; a consumer organization; and
12 three health care market consultants, one of whom is a
13 recognized expert on hospital markets, one of whom is a
14 recognized expert on nursing home or long-term-care markets,
15 and one of whom is a recognized expert on hospice markets; one
16 representative from the Medicaid program; and one
17 representative from a health care facility that provides a
18 tertiary service.
19 (b) The President of the Senate shall appoint a
20 representative of a for-profit hospital, a representative of a
21 not-for-profit hospital, a representative of a public
22 hospital, two representatives of the nursing home industry,
23 two representatives of the hospice industry, a representative
24 of a consumer organization, a representative from the
25 Department of Elderly Affairs involved with the implementation
26 of a long-term-care community diversion program, and a health
27 care market consultant with expertise in health care
28 economics, and a member of the Senate.
29 (c) The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall
30 appoint a representative from the Florida Hospital
31 Association, a representative of the Association of Community
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1 Hospitals and Health Systems of Florida, a representative of
2 the Florida League of Health Systems, a representative of the
3 Florida Health Care Association, a representative of the
4 Florida Association of Homes for the Aging, three
5 representatives of Florida Hospices and Palliative Care, one
6 representative of local health councils, and one
7 representative of a consumer organization, and a member of the
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9 (4) The workgroup shall develop a plan for the reform
10 or elimination of the certificate of need program, which shall
11 include recommendations for required legislative action and
12 agency rule making. Such plan shall be implemented not sooner
13 than the effective date of any rules necessary for its
14 implementation. In developing the plan, the workgroup shall
15 seek input from all classes of health care consumers, health
16 care providers and health care facilities subject to
17 certificate of need review. All agencies, including, but not
18 limited to, the Agency for Health Care Administration and the
19 Department of Elder Affairs, shall provide assistance to the
20 workgroup, upon request. The workgroup shall study issues
21 pertaining to the certificate-of-need program, including the
22 impact of trends in health care delivery and financing. The
23 workgroup shall study issues relating to implementation of the
24 certificate-of-need program.
25 (5) The workgroup shall meet at least annually, at the
26 request of the chairperson. The workgroup shall submit an
27 interim report by December 31, 2001, and a final report to the
28 Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the
29 House of Representatives by January 7, by December 31, 2002.
30 The workgroup is abolished effective May 3, 2002 July 1, 2003.
31 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.
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2 And the title is amended as follows:
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4 remove from the title of the bill: said lines
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7 amending s. 15 of ch. 2000-318, Laws of
8 Florida; providing for additional appointments
9 to the workgroup; amending the scope of
10 responsibility for the workgroup; providing new
11 dates for final report to the Governor and
12 Legislature and termination of the
13 certificate-of-need workgroup; providing an
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