Amendment
Bill No. CS/CS/CS/CS/HB 479
Amendment No. 022651
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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1Representative Kriseman offered the following:
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3     Substitute Amendment for Amendment (542017)
4     Remove lines 748-760 and insert:
5treatment was rendered with reckless disregard as a reasonably
6prudent person similarly licensed to practice medicine would
7have acted under the same or similar circumstances.
8     (3)  A practitioner licensed under chapter 458, chapter
9459, chapter 460, or s. 464.012 who gratuitously and in good
10faith conducts an evaluation pursuant to s. 1006.20(2)(c) is not
11liable for any civil damages arising from that evaluation unless
12the evaluation was conducted with reckless disregard.
13     (4)  For purposes of this section, the term "reckless
14disregard" as it applies to a given health care provider
15rendering services subject to this section is conduct that a
16health care provider knew or should have known, at the time such
17services were rendered, that created an unreasonable risk of
18injury so as to affect the life or health of another, and such
19risk was substantially greater than that which is necessary to
20make the conduct negligent.
21     (5)  The immunity provided by this section does not apply
22to damages as a result of any act or omission of providing
23medical care or treatment unrelated to the original cause that
24demanded immediate medical attention.
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