HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. HB 1713
   
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Senate House
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12          Representative Benson offered the following:
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14          Amendment (with title amendment)
15          Remove line 1386, and insert:
16          of this act are declared severable. However, notwithstanding the
17    provisions of this section, section 28, creating s. 766.118,
18    Florida Statutes, relating to the determination of noneconomic
19    damages as a result of medical negligence, and section 38,
20    repealing s. 768.21(8), Florida Statutes, relating to removing
21    the prohibition against certain parties from bringing suit for
22    wrongful death as a result of medical negligence, are not
23    severable and neither would have been enacted without the other.
24    If either such provision is held invalid, both provisions are
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29          Remove line(s) 104, and insert:
30          severability; providing an exception; providing an effective
31    date.