Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 2286
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/21/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Peaden) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (304236) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Between lines 2181 and 2182
    5  insert:
    6         Section 39. Paragraph (l) of subsection (4) of section
    7  400.9905, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    8         400.9905 Definitions.—
    9         (4) “Clinic” means an entity at which health care services
   10  are provided to individuals and which tenders charges for
   11  reimbursement for such services, including a mobile clinic and a
   12  portable equipment provider. For purposes of this part, the term
   13  does not include and the licensure requirements of this part do
   14  not apply to:
   15         (l) Orthotic, or prosthetic, pediatric cardiological, or
   16  perinatological clinical facilities that are a publicly traded
   17  corporation or that are wholly owned, directly or indirectly, by
   18  a publicly traded corporation. As used in this paragraph, a
   19  publicly traded corporation is a corporation that issues
   20  securities traded on an exchange registered with the United
   21  States Securities and Exchange Commission as a national
   22  securities exchange.
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   25         And the title is amended as follows:
   26         Delete line 3384
   27  and insert:
   28         the eating assistance provided to residents; amending
   29         s. 400.9905, F.S.; revising the definition of the term
   30         “clinic” as it relates to the Health Care Clinic Act;
   31         amending