Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. PCS for SB 940 (941384)
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11  The Committee on Health Care (Peaden) recommended the
12  following amendment to amendment (243786):
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14         Senate Amendment 
15         On page 3, lines 4-18, delete those lines
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18         (2) For purposes of implementing s. 26, Art. X of the
19  State Constitution, the board may not license or continue to
20  license a medical doctor found to have committed repeated
21  medical malpractice. In order to find repeated medical
22  malpractice to determine whether a license must be denied or
23  revoked under this section, the board must determine by clear
24  and convincing evidence if three or more final judgments of a
25  court of law, final administrative agency decisions, decisions
26  of binding arbitration, or a combination thereof relating to
27  three or more separate incidents of medical malpractice, have
28  been entered against a medical doctor. If any of the incidents
29  occurred outside this state, they may not be considered as
30  incidents of medical malpractice unless the board determines
31  by clear and convincing evidence that the incidents would have
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    Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. PCS for SB 940 (941384)
                        Barcode 453418
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