Florida Senate - 2013                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS/CS/HB 1159, 1st Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             05/02/2013 03:35 PM       .                                
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       Senator Diaz de la Portilla moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 178 and 179
    4  insert:
    5         Section 3. Section 408.0363, Florida Statutes, is created
    6  to read:
    7         408.0363 Rural nursing homes; exemption.—If an operator of
    8  a nursing home has 500 or more beds in service within a 15-mile
    9  radius of the nursing home, the operator is eligible to receive
   10  a hospice certificate of need for 80 beds. This hospice
   11  certificate of need is exempt from the certificate-of-need rules
   12  governing hospice licenses. This section applies only to a
   13  nursing home located in a county that is considered rural in
   14  nature.
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   16  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   17         And the title is amended as follows:
   18         Delete line 12
   19  and insert:
   20         be added through expedited review; creating s.
   21         408.0363, F.S.; providing eligibility for a hospice
   22         certificate of need for certain nursing homes;
   23         providing an exemption for a hospice certificate of
   24         need; providing for applicability; providing for