Florida Senate - 2013 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1482 Barcode 888184 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . Floor: WD/2R . 05/02/2013 03:19 PM . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Senator Diaz de la Portilla moved the following: 1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 2 3 Between lines 72 and 73 4 insert: 5 Section 2. 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. 15 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 6 19 and insert: 20 community; creating s. 408.0363, F.S.; providing 21 eligibility for a hospice certificate of need for 22 certain nursing homes; providing an exemption for a 23 hospice certificate of need; providing for 24 applicability; providing an effective date.