HB 0521

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to the Board of Medicine; amending s.
3	458.307, F.S.; revising membership requirements; providing
4	for expiration of terms of current members, appointment of
5	new members to staggered terms, and appointment and terms
6	of successors; providing an effective date.
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8	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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10	Section 1.  Subsections (2) and (3) of section 458.307,
11	Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
12	458.307  Board of Medicine.--
13	(2)  Ten Twelve members of the board must be licensed
14	physicians in good standing in this state who are residents of
15	the state and who have been engaged in the active practice or
16	teaching of medicine in this state with a full and unrestricted
17	medical license for at least 5 4 years immediately preceding
18	their appointment. One of the physicians must be on the full-
19	time faculty of a medical school in this state, and one of the
20	physicians must be in private practice and on the full-time
21	staff of a statutory teaching hospital in this state as defined
22	in s. 408.07. At least one of the physicians must be a graduate
23	of a foreign medical school. Four consumer members The remaining
24	three members must be residents of the state who have lived in
25	the state for at least 5 years immediately preceding their
26	appointments, have never been licensed as a health care
27	practitioner under chapter 456 or the applicable practice act,
28	and do not have a substantial personal, business, professional,
29	or pecuniary connection with a licensed health care practitioner
30	or with a medical education or health care facility, except as
31	patients or potential patients are not, and never have been,
32	licensed health care practitioners. The final One member must be
33	the chief operations officer of a hospital a health care risk
34	manager licensed under chapter 395 who has lived in the state
35	and held this position for at least 5 years immediately
36	preceding his or her appointment s. 395.10974. At least one
37	member of the board must be 60 years of age or older.
38	(3)  Terms for current members of the board shall expire on
39	October 31, 2005. Initial appointments to the board pursuant to
40	this act shall take effect November 1, 2005. Five of the initial
41	physician appointments shall be for a term of 2 years; five of
42	the initial physician appointments shall be for a term of 3
43	years; and the remaining initial appointments shall be for a
44	term of 4 years. As the terms of the members expire subsequent
45	to November 1, 2005, the Governor shall appoint successors for
46	terms of 4 years, and such members shall serve until their
47	successors are appointed.
48	Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.

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