Florida Senate - 2009                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 162
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             04/24/2009 04:43 PM       .                                
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       Senator Ring moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 100 - 125
    4  and insert:
    5         (h) The State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Council and the
    6  local long-term care ombudsman councils, with respect to the
    7  records of a patient who has been admitted from a nursing home
    8  or long-term care facility, when the councils are conducting an
    9  investigation involving the patient as authorized under part II
   10  of chapter 400, upon presentation of identification as a council
   11  member by the person making the request. Disclosure under this
   12  paragraph shall only be made after a competent patient or the
   13  patient’s representative has been advised that disclosure may be
   14  made and the patient has not objected.
   15         (h)(i) A local trauma agency or a regional trauma agency
   16  that performs quality assurance activities, or a panel or
   17  committee assembled to assist a local trauma agency, or a
   18  regional trauma agency in performing quality assurance
   19  activities. Patient records obtained under this paragraph are
   20  confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I
   21  of the State Constitution.
   22         (i)(j) Organ procurement organizations, tissue banks, and
   23  eye banks required to conduct death records reviews pursuant to
   24  s. 395.2050.
   25         (j)(k) The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit in the Department of
   26  Legal Affairs pursuant to s. 409.920.
   27         (k)(l) The Department of Financial Services, or an agent,
   28  employee, or independent contractor of the department who is
   29  auditing for unclaimed property pursuant to chapter 717.
   30         (l)(m) A regional poison control center for purposes of
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   33         And the title is amended as follows:
   34         Delete line 6
   35  and insert:
   36         practitioners, and providers and attending physicians;
   37         deleting the exemption that allows long-term ombudsman
   38         councils to have access to certain nursing home
   39         patient records;