Florida Senate - 2006                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 1596
                        Barcode 165180
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11  The Committee on Criminal Justice (Haridopolos) recommended
12  the following amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 5, lines 3-5, delete those lines
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18         Section 3.  Paragraph (h) is added to subsection (1) of
19  section 400.9935, Florida Statutes, and subsection (13) is
20  added to that section to read:
21         400.9935  Clinic responsibilities.--
22         (1)  Each clinic shall appoint a medical director or
23  clinic director who shall agree in writing to accept legal
24  responsibility for the following activities on behalf of the
25  clinic. The medical director or the clinic director shall:
26         (h)  Not engage in the referral of patients to the
27  clinic if the clinic performs magnetic resonance imaging,
28  static radiographs, computed tomography, or positron emission
29  tomography. The term "referral of patients" means the referral
30  of one or more patients of the medical director or clinic
31  director or of a member of the medical director's or clinic
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    Florida Senate - 2006                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 1596
                        Barcode 165180
 1  director's group practice to the clinic for magnetic resonance
 2  imaging, static radiographs, computed tomography, or positron
 3  emission tomography. A medical director who violates this
 4  paragraph commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as
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 9  And the title is amended as follows:
10         On page 1, line 10, following the second semicolon
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13         providing penalties for medical directors of
14         certain health care clinics who refer patients
15         to their own clinics for specified medical
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