Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. PCS for SB 940 (941384)
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CHAMBER ACTION
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11 The Committee on Health Care (Saunders) recommended the
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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19 Section 1. Section 456.50, Florida Statutes, is
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21 456.50 Prohibition of license after repeated medical
22 malpractice.--
23 (1) For purposes of implementing s. 26, Art. X of the
24 State Constitution, the board shall not license or continue to
25 license a medical doctor found to have committed repeated
26 medical malpractice, the finding of which was based upon clear
27 and convincing evidence. In order to rely on an incident of
28 medical malpractice to determine whether a license must be
29 denied or revoked under this section, if the facts supporting
30 the finding of the incident of medical malpractice were
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1 convincing evidence, the board shall review the record of the
2 case and determine that the finding would be supported under
3 the standard of clear and convincing evidence.
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7 And the title is amended as follows:
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11 malpractice; creating s. 456.50, F.S.;
12 implementing s. 26, Art. X of the State
13 Constitution; prohibiting the Board of Medicine
14 and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine,
15 respectively, from licensing or continuing to
16 license physicians or osteopathic physicians
17 who have committed repeated medical
18 malpractice, as defined; prescribing the
19 standard under which a finding of medical
20 malpractice must be made in order to be
21 considered for purposes of denial or revocation
22 of licensure; providing duties of the
23 respective boards; limiting the application of
24 the prohibition on licensure of physicians and
25 osteopathic physicians to incidents of medical
26 malpractice occurring on or after a specified
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