HB 783

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to the Sarasota County Public Hospital
3	District; amending chapter 2003-359, Laws of Florida;
4	authorizing the Sarasota County Public Hospital Board to
5	establish, operate, and maintain facilities and services
6	outside the boundaries of the district; restricting the
7	use of ad valorem tax funds to facilities and services
8	within the district; providing for severability; providing
9	an effective date.
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11	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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13	Section 1.  Subsections (20), (21), (22), and (23) are
14	added to section 8 of section 3 of chapter 2003-359, Laws of
15	Florida, to read:
16	(20)  The Hospital Board is hereby authorized and
17	empowered, notwithstanding any language contained elsewhere in
18	this act to the contrary, to establish, construct, equip,
19	operate, and maintain both within and beyond the boundaries of
20	the District, in addition to hospitals, all manner of other
21	health care facilities and all manner of other health care
22	services which promote the public health and the health care
23	needs of those members of the public served by the Sarasota
24	County Public Hospital Board, subject to the provisions of
25	sections 408.031-408.0455, Florida Statutes.
26	(21)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this act which
27	permits the joint participation with other hospitals and health
28	care providers or which permits the establishment or providing
29	of other health care facilities or services beyond the
30	boundaries of the Sarasota County Public Hospital District, the
31	Hospital Board shall be expressly prohibited from using any
32	funds derived from the assessment of ad valorem taxes on
33	property located within the District to support any such joint
34	participation or to establish or provide any health care
35	facility or health care service beyond the boundaries of the
36	District, it being the express intent of the Legislature that
37	any ad valorem tax funds be used solely toward health care
38	facilities or health care services within the District.
39	(22)  The Hospital Board is authorized and empowered to
40	contract with individuals, partnerships, corporations,
41	municipalities, the county, the state, and any subdivision or
42	agency thereof in the United States of America, to carry out the
43	purposes of this act, including participation in the joint
44	provision with other hospitals and health care providers of all
45	manner of inpatient and outpatient facilities and health care
46	services which provide benefit to those members of the public
47	served by the hospital or hospitals of the District both within
48	and beyond the boundaries of the Sarasota County Public Hospital
49	District and to the extent such participation is consistent with
50	all restrictions contained in the constitution and general laws
51	of the state and the provisions of sections 408.031-408.0455,
52	Florida Statutes.
53	(23)  The Hospital Board shall have and exercise all powers
54	necessary, incidental, or convenient to effect any or all of the
55	purposes for which the District or the Hospital Board is
56	organized under the provisions of this act.
57	Section 2.  If any section, paragraph, sentence, clause,
58	phrase, or other part of this act shall be declared
59	unconstitutional, or if this act should be declared inapplicable
60	in any case, such declaration shall not affect the remainder of
61	this act or the applicability thereof in any other case.
62	Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.

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