Florida Senate - 2005                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 702
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11  Senator Jones moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
14         On page 4, between lines 8 and 9,
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17         Section 2.  Paragraph (f) of subsection (4) of section
18  381.0405, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
19         381.0405  Office of Rural Health.--
20         (4)  COORDINATION.--The office shall:
21         (f)  Assume responsibility for state coordination of
22  the Rural Hospital Transition Grant Program, the Essential
23  Access Community Hospital Program, and other federal rural
24  hospital and rural health care grant programs.
25         Section 3.  Section 381.0409, Florida Statutes, is
26  created to read:
27         381.0409  Coordination with federal health professional
28  recruitment and placement programs.--The department may
29  coordinate with the Federal Government to designated health
30  professional shortage areas and medically underserved areas,
31  to recommend foreign physicians for visa waivers, to document
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    Florida Senate - 2005                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 702
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 1  health professionals working in the public interest, and to
 2  place health care professionals in medically underserved areas
 3  using federally funded recruitment incentive programs.
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 9  And the title is amended as follows:
10         On page 1, line 19, after the semicolon,
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13         amending s. 381.0405, F.S.; providing that the
14         Office of Rural Health is responsible for state
15         coordination of federal rural hospital and
16         rural health care grant programs; deleting
17         obsolete provisions; creating s. 381.0409,
18         F.S.; authorizing the Department of Health to
19         coordinate with the Federal Government in
20         carrying out certain activities relating to the
21         recruitment and placement of health
22         practitioners in medically underserved areas;
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