Florida Senate - 2006 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
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11 The Committee on Children and Families (Fasano) recommended
12 the following amendment:
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 7. Paragraphs (g) and (i) of subsection (4) of
19 section 400.9905, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
20 400.9905 Definitions.--
21 (4) "Clinic" means an entity at which health care
22 services are provided to individuals and which tenders charges
23 for reimbursement for such services, including a mobile clinic
24 and a portable equipment provider. For purposes of this part,
25 the term does not include and the licensure requirements of
26 this part do not apply to:
27 (g) A sole proprietorship, group practice,
28 partnership, or corporation that provides health care services
29 by licensed health care practitioners under chapter 457,
30 chapter 458, chapter 459, chapter 460, chapter 461, chapter
31 462, chapter 463, chapter 466, chapter 467, chapter 480,
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1 chapter 484, chapter 486, chapter 490, chapter 491, or part I,
2 part III, part X, part XIII, or part XIV of chapter 468, or s.
3 464.012, which are wholly owned by one or more licensed health
4 care practitioners, or the licensed health care practitioners
5 set forth in this paragraph and the spouse, parent, child, or
6 sibling of a licensed health care practitioner, or an employee
7 stock ownership plan under 26 U.S.C. s. 409 having a board of
8 trustees of which no fewer than two-thirds are licensed health
9 care practitioners as set forth in this paragraph, so long as
10 one of the owners or trustees who is a licensed health care
11 practitioner is supervising the business activities and is
12 legally responsible for the entity's compliance with all
13 federal and state laws. However, a health care practitioner
14 may not supervise services beyond the scope of the
15 practitioner's license, except that, for the purposes of this
16 part, a clinic owned by a licensee in s. 456.053(3)(b) that
17 provides only services authorized pursuant to s. 456.053(3)(b)
18 may be supervised by a licensee specified in s. 456.053(3)(b).
19 (i) Entities that provide only oncology or radiation
20 therapy services by physicians licensed under chapter 458 or
21 chapter 459 which are owned by a corporation whose shares are
22 publicly traded on a registered stock exchange.
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26 And the title is amended as follows:
27 On page 4, line 7, after the semicolon,
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30 providing that the term "clinic" does not
31 include certain employee stock ownership plans
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