Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 2570
                        Barcode 871252
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11  The Committee on Health and Human Services Appropriations
12  (Jones) recommended the following amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 2, between lines 21 and 22,
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18         Section 2.  Paragraph (i) of subsection (5) of section
19  400.93, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
20         400.93  Licensure required; exemptions; unlawful acts;
21  penalties.--
22         (5)  The following are exempt from home medical
23  equipment provider licensure, unless they have a separate
24  company, corporation, or division that is in the business of
25  providing home medical equipment and services for sale or rent
26  to consumers at their regular or temporary place of residence
27  pursuant to the provisions of this part:
28         (i)  Licensed health care practitioners who utilize
29  home medical equipment in the course of their practice, but do
30  not sell or rent home medical equipment to their patients, or
31  physicians who sell, rent, or supply to their patients
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Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 2570 Barcode 871252 1 equipment or devices in the physicians' offices. 2 3 (Redesignate subsequent sections.) 4 5 6 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 7 And the title is amended as follows: 8 On page 1, line 4, after the semicolon, 9 10 insert: 11 amending s. 400.93, F.S.; providing that 12 physicians who sell, rent, or supply equipment 13 or devices to their patients are exempt from 14 licensure as a home medical equipment provider; 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2 5:17 PM 04/22/05 s2570c1c-ha13-ta1