Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1066
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/10/2014           .                                
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       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 195 - 232
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 5. Subsection (17) of section 456.057, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         456.057 Ownership and control of patient records; report or
    8  copies of records to be furnished; disclosure of information.—
    9         (17) A health care practitioner or records owner furnishing
   10  copies of reports or records or making the reports or records
   11  available for digital scanning pursuant to this section shall
   12  charge no more than the actual cost of copying, including
   13  reasonable staff time, or the amount specified in administrative
   14  rule by the appropriate board, or the department when there is
   15  no board. The rates charged for reproduction of written or typed
   16  medical records must be the same regardless of format or medium.
   17         Section 6. Subsections (2) through (4) of section 458.319,
   18  Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (3) through
   19  (5), respectively, and a new subsection (2) is added to that
   20  section, to read:
   21         458.319 Renewal of license.—
   22         (2) Each licensee shall demonstrate his or her professional
   23  competency by completing at least 40 hours of continuing medical
   24  education every 2 years. The board, by rule, may:
   25         (a) Provide that continuing medical education approved by
   26  the American Medical Association satisfies some or all of the
   27  continuing medical education requirements.
   28         (b) Mandate specific continuing medical education
   29  requirements.
   30         (c) Approve alternative methods for obtaining continuing
   31  medical education credits, including, but not limited to:
   32         1. Attendance at a board meeting at which another licensee
   33  is disciplined;
   34         2. Service as a volunteer expert witness for the department
   35  in a disciplinary proceeding; or
   36         3. Service as a member of a probable cause panel following
   37  expiration of a board member’s term.
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   39  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   40  And the title is amended as follows:
   41         Delete lines 21 - 23
   42  and insert:
   43         s. 456.057, F.S.; requiring rates charged for copies
   44         of certain medical records to be the same; amending s.
   45         458.319, F.S.; providing continuing medical education
   46         requirements for Board of Medicine licensees;