HB 0807 2004
1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to continuing education for health care
3	practitioners; amending s. 456.025, F.S.; deleting
4	requirements for the Department of Health to administer an
5	electronic continuing education tracking system for health
6	care practitioners; providing an effective date.
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8	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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10	Section 1. Subsection (7) of section 456.025, Florida
11	Statutes, is amended to read:
12	456.025 Fees; receipts; disposition.--
13	(7) Each board, or the department if there is no board,
14	shall establish, by rule, a fee not to exceed $250 for anyone
15	seeking approval to provide continuing education courses or
16	programs and shall establish by rule a biennial renewal fee not
17	to exceed $250 for the renewal of providership of such courses.
18	The fees collected from continuing education providers shall be
19	used for the purposes of reviewing course provider applications,
20	monitoring the integrity of the courses provided, andcovering
21	legal expenses incurred as a result of not granting or renewing
22	a providership, and developing and maintaining an electronic
23	continuing education tracking system. The department shall
24	implement an electronic continuing education tracking system for
25	each new biennial renewal cycle for which electronic renewals
26	are implemented after the effective date of this act and shall
27	integrate such system into the licensure and renewal system. All
28	approved continuing education providers shall provide
29	information on course attendance to the department necessary to
30	implement the electronic tracking system. The department shall,
31	by rule, specify the form and procedures by which the
32	information is to be submitted.
33	Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.