Senate Bill sb1758

    Florida Senate - 2007                                  SB 1758

    By Senator Peaden





    2-1575-07

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to hospitals; amending s.

  3         395.003, F.S.; prohibiting the licensing of

  4         additional emergency departments located off

  5         the premises of licensed hospitals until the

  6         Agency for Health Care Administration adopts

  7         rules; providing an effective date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Subsection (1) of section 395.003, Florida

12  Statutes, is amended to read:

13         395.003  Licensure; issuance, renewal, denial,

14  modification, suspension, and revocation.--

15         (1)(a)  A person may not establish, conduct, or

16  maintain a hospital, ambulatory surgical center, or mobile

17  surgical facility in this state without first obtaining a

18  license under this part.

19         (b)1.  It is unlawful for a person to use or advertise

20  to the public, in any way or by any medium whatsoever, any

21  facility as a "hospital," "ambulatory surgical center," or

22  "mobile surgical facility" unless such facility has first

23  secured a license under the provisions of this part.

24         2.  This part does not apply to veterinary hospitals or

25  to commercial business establishments using the word

26  "hospital," "ambulatory surgical center," or "mobile surgical

27  facility" as a part of a trade name if no treatment of human

28  beings is performed on the premises of such establishments.

29         3.  Until July 1, 2006, Additional emergency

30  departments located off the premises of licensed hospitals may

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    Florida Senate - 2007                                  SB 1758
    2-1575-07




 1  not be authorized by the agency until the agency has adopted

 2  rules required under s. 395.1055(9).

 3         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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