Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 972
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11  The Committee on Health Care (Jones) recommended the following
12  amendment to amendment (643804):
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 29, line 11,
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18         Section 3.  Subsection (2) of section 459.015, Florida
19  Statutes, is amended to read:
20         459.015  Grounds for disciplinary action; action by the
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22         (2)  The board may enter an order denying licensure or
23  imposing any of the penalties in s. 456.072(2) against any
24  applicant for licensure or licensee who is found guilty of
25  violating any provision of subsection (1) of this section or
26  who is found guilty of violating any provision of s.
27  456.072(1). A probable cause panel considering disciplinary
28  action against a physician assistant pursuant to s. 456.073
29  shall include a licensed physician assistant designated by the
30  Council on Physician Assistants. In determining what action is
31  appropriate, the board must first consider what sanctions are
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    Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
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 1  necessary to protect the public or to compensate the patient.
 2  Only after those sanctions have been imposed may the
 3  disciplining authority consider and include in the order
 4  requirements designed to rehabilitate the physician.  All
 5  costs associated with compliance with orders issued under this
 6  subsection are the obligation of the physician.
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10  And the title is amended as follows:
11         On page 30, line 17, after the semicolon,
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14         amending s. 459.015, F.S.; requiring the
15         inclusion of a licensed physician assistant on
16         certain probable cause panels;
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