Senate Bill sb1180

    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 1180

    By Senator Campbell





    32-859-05                                           See HB 521

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Board of Medicine;

  3         amending s. 458.307, F.S.; revising membership

  4         requirements; providing for expiration of terms

  5         of current members, appointment of new members

  6         to staggered terms, and appointment and terms

  7         of successors; providing an effective date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Subsections (2) and (3) of section 458.307,

12  Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

13         458.307  Board of Medicine.--

14         (2)  Ten Twelve members of the board must be licensed

15  physicians in good standing in this state who are residents of

16  the state and who have been engaged in the active practice or

17  teaching of medicine in this state with a full and

18  unrestricted medical license for at least 5 4 years

19  immediately preceding their appointment. One of the physicians

20  must be on the full-time faculty of a medical school in this

21  state, and one of the physicians must be in private practice

22  and on the full-time staff of a statutory teaching hospital in

23  this state as defined in s. 408.07. At least one of the

24  physicians must be a graduate of a foreign medical school.

25  Four consumer members The remaining three members must be

26  residents of the state who have lived in the state for at

27  least 5 years immediately preceding their appointments, have

28  never been licensed as a health care practitioner under

29  chapter 456 or the applicable practice act, and do not have a

30  substantial personal, business, professional, or pecuniary

31  connection with a licensed health care practitioner or with a

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    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 1180
    32-859-05                                           See HB 521




 1  medical education or health care facility, except as patients

 2  or potential patients are not, and never have been, licensed

 3  health care practitioners. The final One member must be the

 4  chief operations officer of a hospital a health care risk

 5  manager licensed under chapter 395 who has lived in the state

 6  and held this position for at least 5 years immediately

 7  preceding his or her appointment s. 395.10974. At least one

 8  member of the board must be 60 years of age or older.

 9         (3)  Terms for current members of the board shall

10  expire on October 31, 2005. Initial appointments to the board

11  pursuant to this act shall take effect November 1, 2005. Five

12  of the initial physician appointments shall be for a term of 2

13  years; five of the initial physician appointments shall be for

14  a term of 3 years; and the remaining initial appointments

15  shall be for a term of 4 years. As the terms of the members

16  expire subsequent to November 1, 2005, the Governor shall

17  appoint successors for terms of 4 years, and such members

18  shall serve until their successors are appointed.

19         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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