Florida Senate - 2009                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS/CS/SB 2614, 1st Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Gaetz moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 1713 and 1714
    4  insert:
    5         Section 30. Paragraph (l) of subsection (4) of section
    6  400.9905, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         400.9905 Definitions.—
    8         (4) “Clinic” means an entity at which health care services
    9  are provided to individuals and which tenders charges for
   10  reimbursement for such services, including a mobile clinic and a
   11  portable equipment provider. For purposes of this part, the term
   12  does not include and the licensure requirements of this part do
   13  not apply to:
   14         (l) Orthotic, or prosthetic, pediatric cardiological, or
   15  perinatological clinical facilities that are a publicly traded
   16  corporation or that are wholly owned, directly or indirectly, by
   17  a publicly traded corporation. As used in this paragraph, a
   18  publicly traded corporation is a corporation that issues
   19  securities traded on an exchange registered with the United
   20  States Securities and Exchange Commission as a national
   21  securities exchange.
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   24         And the title is amended as follows:
   25         Delete line 186
   26  and insert:
   27         administer the act; amending s. 400.9905, F.S.;
   28         revising the definition of the term “clinic” as it
   29         relates to the Health Care Clinic Act; amending s.
   30         409.904, F.S.;