| 1 | The Health Care Regulation Committee recommends the following: |
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| 3 | Council/Committee Substitute |
| 4 | Remove the entire bill and insert: |
| 5 | A bill to be entitled |
| 6 | An act relating to podiatric medicine; amending s. |
| 7 | 461.014, F.S.; requiring a hospital having a podiatric |
| 8 | residency program to annually provide the Board of |
| 9 | Podiatric Medicine with certain information; increasing |
| 10 | the time allowed for a resident to continue as an |
| 11 | unlicensed resident; permitting a resident podiatric |
| 12 | physician to prescribe certain medications under certain |
| 13 | circumstances; requiring residents be subject to certain |
| 14 | grounds for disciplinary action and investigations; |
| 15 | providing a penalty; requiring the board to adopt rules to |
| 16 | administer this act; providing an effective date. |
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| 18 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 20 | Section 1. Section 461.014, Florida Statutes, is amended |
| 21 | to read: |
| 22 | 461.014 Residency.-- |
| 23 | (1) The board shall encourage and develop podiatric |
| 24 | residency programs in hospitals in this state and shall |
| 25 | establish such programs by the adoption promulgation of rules, |
| 26 | subject to the following conditions: |
| 27 | (a)(1) Any residency program shall be approved by the |
| 28 | Council of Podiatry Education of the American Podiatry |
| 29 | Association. |
| 30 | (b)(2) A residency program may be established only at a |
| 31 | hospital where a duly licensed podiatric physician is on the |
| 32 | hospital staff or is otherwise in a supervisory position. |
| 33 | (c)(3) Every resident shall register with the board |
| 34 | through the submission of forms provided by the board, which |
| 35 | forms shall, besides other required information, reflect the |
| 36 | date of commencement of residency. |
| 37 | (d)(4) Every hospital having a residency program shall |
| 38 | annually, on semiannually, on January 1 and July 1 of each year, |
| 39 | provide the board with a list of podiatric residents and such |
| 40 | other information as is required by the board. |
| 41 | (e)(5) A No program in residency may not shall allow a |
| 42 | resident to continue as an such, unlicensed resident, for an |
| 43 | aggregate period of time in excess of 3 2 years. |
| 44 | (f) A person registered as a resident podiatric physician |
| 45 | under this section may, in the normal course of his or her |
| 46 | employment, prescribe medicinal drugs described in schedules set |
| 47 | forth in chapter 893 and pursuant to s. 461.003(5) if: |
| 48 | 1. The person prescribes such medicinal drugs through use |
| 49 | of a Drug Enforcement Administration number issued to the |
| 50 | hospital or teaching hospital by which the person is employed or |
| 51 | at which the person's services are used. |
| 52 | 2. The person is identified by a discrete suffix to the |
| 53 | identification number issued to such hospital. |
| 54 | 3. The use of the institutional identification number and |
| 55 | individual suffixes conforms to the requirements of the federal |
| 56 | Drug Enforcement Administration. |
| 57 | (2) Notwithstanding this section or s. 120.52, any person |
| 58 | who is registered under this section is subject to s. 461.013. |
| 59 | (3) Any person who willfully violates this section commits |
| 60 | a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. |
| 61 | 775.082 or s. 775.083. |
| 62 | (4) The board shall adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) |
| 63 | and 120.54 as necessary to administer this section. |
| 64 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2005. |