| 1 | Representative(s) Homan, Seiler, and Garcia offered the |
| 2 | following: |
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| 4 | Amendment to Amendment (072115) |
| 5 | Remove line(s) 9-43 and insert: |
| 6 | Medicine, composed of 17 15 members appointed by the Governor |
| 7 | and confirmed by the Senate. |
| 8 | (2) Twelve members of the board must be licensed |
| 9 | physicians in good standing in this state who are residents of |
| 10 | the state and who have been engaged in the active practice or |
| 11 | teaching of medicine in this state with a full and unrestricted |
| 12 | medical license for at least 5 4 years immediately preceding |
| 13 | their appointment. One of the physicians must be on the full- |
| 14 | time faculty of a medical school in this state, and one of the |
| 15 | physicians must be in private practice and on the full-time |
| 16 | staff of a statutory teaching hospital in this state as defined |
| 17 | in s. 408.07. At least one of the physicians must be a graduate |
| 18 | of a foreign medical school. The remaining five three members |
| 19 | must be residents of the state who have lived in the state for |
| 20 | at least 5 years immediately preceding their appointments, have |
| 21 | never been licensed as a health care practitioner under chapter |
| 22 | 456 or the applicable practice act, and do not have a |
| 23 | substantial personal, business, professional, or pecuniary |
| 24 | connection with a licensed health care practitioner or with a |
| 25 | medical education or health care facility, except as patients or |
| 26 | potential patients are not, and never have been, licensed health |
| 27 | care practitioners. One member must be a health care risk |
| 28 | manager licensed under s. 395.10974. At least one member of the |
| 29 | board must be 60 years of age or older. The requirements of this |
| 30 | subsection shall be a continuing condition of membership on the |
| 31 | board. Any member who ceases to meet the requirements of this |
| 32 | subsection shall be removed from the board, and a new qualified |
| 33 | member shall be appointed to fill the vacancy for the remainder |
| 34 | of that member's term. |
| 35 | Section 2. The requirements of section 458.307, Florida |
| 36 | Statutes, as amended by this act, shall apply to appointments |
| 37 | made on or after the effective date of this act and shall not be |
| 38 | construed to end the term of any member of the Board of Medicine |
| 39 | holding that appointment on the effective date of this act. The |
| 40 | term of the additional members required to be appointed under |
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| 42 | ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================= |
| 43 | Remove lines 347-350 and insert: |
| 44 | Board of Medicine; providing for the appointment of additional |
| 45 | members; providing applicability to current members; providing |
| 46 | the beginning date for the term of additional members; |