Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 212
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  02/26/2016           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Flores) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (317634) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Between lines 233 and 234
    5  insert:
    6         Section 4. (1) The Board of Medicine and the Board of
    7  Osteopathic Medicine shall adopt rules to establish requirements
    8  that ensure the safe and effective delivery of pediatric
    9  surgical care in ambulatory surgical centers in accordance with
   10  the American College of Surgeons’ evidence-based standards for
   11  optimal pediatric care. The rules must establish minimum
   12  standards for pediatric-specific patient care, including at
   13  least the following:
   14         (a) Surgical risk assessment.
   15         (b) Anesthesiology.
   16         (c) Resuscitation.
   17         (d) Transfer agreements.
   18         (e) Training and certification of pediatric health care
   19  providers.
   20         (2) An ambulatory surgical center may not perform an
   21  operative procedure on an infant or a child younger than 18
   22  years of age which requires that the infant or child remain in
   23  the facility past midnight on the day of the procedure until
   24  such rules have been adopted.
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   26  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   27  And the title is amended as follows:
   28         Delete line 765
   29  and insert:
   30         amount; defining a term; requiring the Board of
   31         Medicine to adopt rules establishing requirements that
   32         ensure the safe and effective delivery of pediatric
   33         surgical care in ambulatory surgical centers;
   34         requiring that the rules address specific aspects of
   35         care; prohibiting ambulatory surgical centers from
   36         performing certain operative procedures until such
   37         rules are adopted; creating s. 624.27, F.S.;