Florida Senate - 2015                                     SB 996
       
       
        
       By Senator Richter
       
       
       
       
       
       23-01119-15                                            2015996__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to home medical equipment; amending s.
    3         400.93, F.S.; exempting allopathic, osteopathic, and
    4         chiropractic physicians who sell or rent
    5         electrostimulation medical equipment and supplies to
    6         their patients in the course of their practice from
    7         licensure as home medical equipment providers;
    8         providing an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Paragraph (k) is added to subsection (5) of
   13  section 400.93, Florida Statutes, to read:
   14         400.93 Licensure required; exemptions; unlawful acts;
   15  penalties.—
   16         (5) The following are exempt from home medical equipment
   17  provider licensure, unless they have a separate company,
   18  corporation, or division that is in the business of providing
   19  home medical equipment and services for sale or rent to
   20  consumers at their regular or temporary place of residence
   21  pursuant to the provisions of this part:
   22         (k) Physicians licensed pursuant to chapter 458, chapter
   23  459, or chapter 460 for the sale or rental of electrostimulation
   24  medical equipment and electrostimulation medical equipment
   25  supplies to their patients in the course of their practice.
   26         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.