Florida Senate - 2014                                    SB 1134
       
       
        
       By Senator Detert
       
       
       
       
       
       28-00743-14                                           20141134__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to home medical equipment; amending s.
    3         400.925, F.S.; redefining the term “home medical
    4         equipment provider”; exempting medical practices owned
    5         by allopathic, osteopathic, or chiropractic
    6         physicians, as well as medical practices owned by
    7         physicians and certain family members of such
    8         physicians, which sell or rent home medical equipment
    9         or services from the requirement that they be licensed
   10         as home medical equipment providers; providing an
   11         effective date.
   12          
   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   15         Section 1. Subsection (7) of section 400.925, Florida
   16  Statutes, is amended to read:
   17         400.925 Definitions.—As used in this part, the term:
   18         (7) “Home medical equipment provider” means any person or
   19  entity, other than a medical practice that is wholly owned by
   20  one or more physicians licensed under chapter 458, chapter 459,
   21  or chapter 460, or by a physician and the spouse, parent, child,
   22  or sibling of the physician, which that sells or rents or offers
   23  to sell or rent to or for a consumer:
   24         (a) Any home medical equipment and services; or
   25         (b) Home medical equipment that requires any home medical
   26  equipment services.
   27         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.