Senate Bill sb0478

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    Florida Senate - 2005                                   SB 478

    By Senator Clary





    4-319-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to podiatric medicine; amending

  3         s. 461.014, F.S.; requiring a hospital having a

  4         podiatric residency program to annually provide

  5         the Board of Podiatric Medicine with certain

  6         information; permitting a resident podiatric

  7         physician to prescribe certain medications

  8         under certain circumstances; providing a

  9         penalty; requiring the board to adopt rules to

10         administer this act; providing an effective

11         date.

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

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15         Section 1.  Section 461.014, Florida Statutes, is

16  amended to read:

17         461.014  Residency.--

18         (1)  The board shall encourage and develop podiatric

19  residency programs in hospitals in this state and shall

20  establish such programs by the adoption promulgation of rules,

21  subject to the following conditions:

22         (a)(1)  Any residency program shall be approved by the

23  Council of Podiatry Education of the American Podiatry

24  Association.

25         (b)(2)  A residency program may be established only at

26  a hospital where a duly licensed podiatric physician is on the

27  hospital staff or is otherwise in a supervisory position.

28         (c)(3)  Every resident shall register with the board

29  through the submission of forms provided by the board, which

30  forms shall, besides other required information, reflect the

31  date of commencement of residency.

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 1         (d)(4)  Every hospital having a residency program shall

 2  annually, on semiannually, on January 1 and July 1 of each

 3  year, provide the board with a list of podiatric residents and

 4  such other information as is required by the board.

 5         (e)(5)  A No program in residency may not shall allow a

 6  resident to continue as an such, unlicensed resident, for an

 7  aggregate period of time in excess of 2 years.

 8         (f)  A person registered as a resident podiatric

 9  physician under this section may, in the normal course of his

10  or her employment, prescribe medicinal drugs described in

11  schedules set forth in chapter 893 if:

12         1.  The person prescribes such medicinal drugs through

13  use of a Drug Enforcement Administration number issued to the

14  hospital or teaching hospital by which the person is employed

15  or at which the person's services are used;

16         2.  The person is identified by a discrete suffix to

17  the identification number issued to such hospital; and

18         3.  The use of the institutional identification number

19  and individual suffixes conforms to the requirements of the

20  federal Drug Enforcement Administration.

21         (2)  Any person who willfully violates this section

22  commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as

23  provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

24         (3)  The board shall adopt rules pursuant to ss.

25  120.536(1) and 120.54 as necessary to administer this section.

26         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.

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 3    Requires a hospital having a podiatric residency program
      to annually provide the Board of Podiatric Medicine with
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      physician to prescribe certain medications. Provides a
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