Florida Senate - 2013                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 604, 1st Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             04/25/2013 09:12 AM       .                                
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       Senator Bean moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsections (1) and (2) of section 401.34,
    6  Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
    7         401.34 Fees.—
    8         (1) Each organization or person subject to this part must
    9  pay to the department the following nonrefundable fees, and
   10  these fees must be deposited into the Emergency Medical Services
   11  Trust Fund to be applied solely for salaries and expenses of the
   12  department incurred in implementing and enforcing this part:
   13         (a) Basic life support service license application: $660,
   14  to be paid biennially.
   15         (b) Advanced life support service license application:
   16  $1,375, to be paid biennially.
   17         (c) Original or renewal vehicle permit application for
   18  basic or advanced life support: $25, to be paid biennially.
   19         (d) Air ambulance service application: $1,375, to be paid
   20  biennially.
   21         (e) Original or renewal aircraft permit application for air
   22  ambulance: $25, to be paid biennially.
   23         (2) Each person subject to this part must pay to the
   24  department the following nonrefundable fees, and these fees must
   25  be deposited into the Medical Quality Assurance Trust Fund:
   26         (a)(d) Emergency medical technician certification
   27  examination application: $40.
   28         (b)(e) Emergency medical technician original certificate
   29  application: $35.
   30         (c)(f) Emergency medical technician renewal certificate
   31  application: $20, to be paid biennially.
   32         (d)(g) Paramedic certification examination application:
   33  $40.
   34         (e)(h) Paramedic original certificate application: $45.
   35         (f)(i) Paramedic renewal certificate application: $45, to
   36  be paid biennially.
   37         (j) Air ambulance service application: $1,375, to be paid
   38  biennially.
   39         (k) Original or renewal aircraft permit application for air
   40  ambulance: $25, to be paid biennially.
   41         (2) Fees collected under this section must be deposited to
   42  the credit of the Emergency Medical Services Trust Fund and must
   43  be applied solely for salaries and expenses of the department
   44  incurred in implementing and enforcing this part.
   45         Section 2. Paragraph (b) of subsection (7) of section
   46  456.076, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   47         456.076 Treatment programs for impaired practitioners.—
   48         (7)
   49         (b) In accordance with s. 284.385, the Department of
   50  Financial Services shall defend any claim, suit, action, or
   51  proceeding, including a claim, suit, action, or proceeding for
   52  injunctive, affirmative, or declaratory relief, against the
   53  consultant, the consultant’s officers or employees, or those
   54  acting at the direction of the consultant for the limited
   55  purpose of an emergency intervention on behalf of a licensee or
   56  student as described in subsection (2) when the consultant is
   57  unable to perform such intervention, which claim, suit, action,
   58  or proceeding is brought as a result of an any act or omission
   59  by any of the consultant’s officers and employees and those
   60  acting under the direction of the consultant for the limited
   61  purpose of an emergency intervention on behalf of the a licensee
   62  or student as described in subsection (2) when the consultant is
   63  unable to perform such intervention, if the when such act or
   64  omission arises out of and is in the scope of the consultant’s
   65  duties under its contract with the department.
   66         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.
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   68  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   69         And the title is amended as follows:
   70         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   71  and insert:
   72                        A bill to be entitled                      
   73         An act relating to practitioners; amending s. 401.34,
   74         F.S.; revising requirements for the deposit and use of
   75         license fees for certain practitioners; amending s.
   76         456.076, F.S.; requiring the Department of Financial
   77         Services to defend certain claims, suits, actions, or
   78         proceedings for injunctive, affirmative, or
   79         declaratory relief involving emergency interventions
   80         on behalf of impaired practitioners; providing an
   81         effective date.