SENATE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 2448
    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 711658
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11  Senator Saunders moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
14         On page 37, between lines 2 and 3,
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17         Section 25.  Paragraph (h) is added to subsection (3)
18  of section 400.9905, Florida Statutes, to read:
19         400.9905  Definitions.--
20         (3)  "Clinic" means an entity at which health care
21  services are provided to individuals and which tenders charges
22  for reimbursement for such services. For purposes of this
23  part, the term does not include and the licensure requirements
24  of this part do not apply to:
25         (h)  Entities that provide only oncology or radiation
26  therapy services by physicians licensed under chapter 458 or
27  chapter 459.
28         Section 26.  The amendment made by this act to section
29  400.9905(3), Florida Statutes, is intended to clarify the
30  legislative intent of this provision as it existed at the time
31  the provision initially took effect as section 456.0375(1)(b),
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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 2448
    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 711658
 1  Florida Statutes, and section 400.9905(3)(h), Florida
 2  Statutes, as created by this act, shall operate retroactively
 3  to October 1, 2001.
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 5  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)
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 9  And the title is amended as follows:
10         On page 4, line 23, after the first semicolon,
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13         amending s. 400.9905, F.S.; providing that
14         certain entities providing oncology or
15         radiation therapy services are exempt from the
16         licensure requirements of part XIII of ch. 400,
17         F.S.; providing legislative intent with respect
18         to such exemption; providing for retroactive
19         application;
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