Florida Senate - 2006                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. HB 7215, 2nd Eng.
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11  Senator Peaden moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
14         Between lines 974 and 975,
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17         Section 12.  Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section
18  395.003, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
19         395.003  Licensure; issuance, renewal, denial,
20  modification, suspension, and revocation.--
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22         (b)1.  It is unlawful for a person to use or advertise
23  to the public, in any way or by any medium whatsoever, any
24  facility as a "hospital," "ambulatory surgical center," or
25  "mobile surgical facility" unless such facility has first
26  secured a license under the provisions of this part.
27         2.  This part does not apply to veterinary hospitals or
28  to commercial business establishments using the word
29  "hospital," "ambulatory surgical center," or "mobile surgical
30  facility" as a part of a trade name if no treatment of human
31  beings is performed on the premises of such establishments.
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    Florida Senate - 2006                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. HB 7215, 2nd Eng.
                        Barcode 245710
 1         3.  Until July 1, 2007 2006, additional emergency
 2  departments located off the premises of licensed hospitals may
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 9  And the title is amended as follows:
10         On line 53, after the semicolon,
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13         amending s. 395.003, F.S.; prohibiting
14         additional emergency departments located off
15         the premises of licensed hospitals from being
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