Florida Senate - 2013                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 966
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Latvala moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (659334) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Between lines 3382 and 3383
    5  insert:
    6         Section 76. Section 483.111, Florida Statutes, is amended
    7  to read:
    8         483.111 Limitations on licensure.—A license may be issued
    9  to a clinical laboratory to perform only those clinical
   10  laboratory procedures and tests that are within the specialties
   11  or subspecialties in which the clinical laboratory personnel are
   12  qualified. A license may not be issued unless the agency
   13  determines that the clinical laboratory is adequately staffed
   14  and equipped to operate in conformity with the requirements of
   15  this part, part II of chapter 408, and applicable rules. A
   16  clinical laboratory licensed after July 1, 2013, may not perform
   17  quantitative drug testing using high-complexity tests, as
   18  categorized under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement
   19  Amendments of 1988, unless the clinical laboratory is accredited
   20  through the College of American Pathologists and submits to and
   21  passes available proficiency testing for analytes applicable to
   22  the drug-testing methods that the clinical laboratory uses. A
   23  licensed clinical laboratory fully owned and operated by a
   24  Florida-licensed hospital is exempt from the accreditation
   25  requirements of this section.
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   28         And the title is amended as follows:
   29         Delete line 337
   30  and insert:
   31         and land development; amending s. 483.111, F.S.;
   32         requiring clinical laboratories that perform certain
   33         drug testing to be accredited and pass specific
   34         proficiency tests; providing an exemption for certain
   35         clinical laboratories; amending s. 499.003, F.S.;