Florida Senate - 2011                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1992
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             04/27/2011 02:27 PM       .                                
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       Senator Storms moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Before line 44
    4  insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraph (d) is added to subsection (1) of
    6  section 394.4572, Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         394.4572 Screening of mental health personnel.—
    8         (1)
    9         (d) Mental health personnel working in a facility licensed
   10  under chapter 395 who work on an intermittent basis for less
   11  than 15 hours per week of direct, face-to-face contact with
   12  patients are exempt from the fingerprinting and screening
   13  requirements, except that persons working in a mental health
   14  facility where the primary purpose of the facility is the mental
   15  health treatment of minors must be fingerprinted and meet
   16  screening requirements.
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   19  And the title is amended as follows:
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   21         Delete line 2
   22  and insert:
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   24         An act relating to background screening; amending s.
   25         394.4572, F.S.; providing that mental health personnel
   26         working in a facility licensed under ch. 395, F.S.,
   27         who work on an intermittent basis for less than 15
   28         hours per week of direct, face-to-face contact with
   29         patients are exempt from the fingerprinting and
   30         screening requirements; providing an exception;
   31         amending s.