SENATE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 2166
    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 552150
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11  Senator Lynn moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
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17         4.  By December 31, 2004, the Agency for Health Care
18  Administration shall submit a report to the President of the
19  Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives
20  containing the agency's recommendations as to whether it is in
21  the public interest to allow a hospital to license or operate
22  an emergency department located off the premises of the
23  licensed hospital. If the agency finds it to be in the public
24  interest, the agency shall recommend in its report the
25  licensure criteria for such medical facilities, including, but
26  not limited to, criteria related to quality of care and
27  criteria related to, if deemed necessary by the agency, the
28  elimination of the possibility of public confusion related to
29  the service capabilities of such medical facility in
30  comparison to the service capabilities of an emergency
31  department located on the premises of the hospital. Until July
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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 2166
    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 552150
 1  1, 2005, additional emergency departments located off premises
 2  of a licensed hospital may not be authorized.
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 6  And the title is amended as follows:
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10         requiring the Agency for Health Care
11         Administration to submit a report to the
12         Legislature of its recommendations regarding
13         the licensing of an emergency department
14         located off the premises of a licensed
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