Florida Senate - 2016 PROPOSED COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
Bill No. SB 236
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Proposed Committee Substitute by the Committee on Fiscal Policy
(Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services)
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to certificates of need for rural
3 hospitals; amending s. 395.6025, F.S.; revising the
4 criteria for exempting a rural hospital or the
5 operator of rural hospitals from the requirement to
6 obtain a certificate of need for the construction of a
7 replacement facility; providing an effective date.
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9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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11 Section 1. Section 395.6025, Florida Statutes, is amended
12 to read:
13 395.6025 Rural hospital replacement facilities.
14 Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 408.036, a hospital defined
15 as a statutory rural hospital in accordance with s. 395.602, or
16 an a not-for-profit operator of rural hospitals, is not required
17 to obtain a certificate of need for the construction of a
18 replacement new hospital located in a county with a population
19 of at least 15,000 but no more than 18,000 and a density of less
20 than 100 30 persons per square mile, or a replacement facility,
21 provided that the replacement, or new, facility is not located
22 within 15 10 miles of the site of a the currently licensed rural
23 hospital in an adjacent county and within the current primary
24 service area. As used in this section, the term “service area”
25 means the fewest number of zip codes that account for 75 percent
26 of the hospital’s discharges for the most recent 5-year period,
27 based on information available from the hospital inpatient
28 discharge database in the Florida Center for Health Information
29 and Policy Analysis at the Agency for Health Care
30 Administration.
31 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.