Florida Senate - 2016 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 460 Ì660046ÊÎ660046 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . Floor: WD . 02/24/2016 12:21 PM . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Senator Bradley moved the following: 1 Senate Amendment to Amendment (369986) 2 3 Delete lines 682 - 705 4 and insert: 5 Section 3. (1) Notwithstanding s. 381.986(5)(b), Florida 6 Statutes, a dispensing organization that receives notice from 7 the Department of Health that it is approved as a region’s 8 dispensing organization, posts a $5 million performance bond in 9 compliance with rule 64-4.002(5)(e), Florida Administrative 10 Code, meets the requirements of and requests cultivation 11 authorization pursuant to rule 64-4.005(2), Florida 12 Administrative Code, and expends at least $100,000 to fulfill 13 its legal obligations as a dispensing organization; or any 14 applicant that would have received notice of such approval from 15 the Department of Health but for an erroneous finding that the 16 applicant failed to meet the requirements of s. 381.986, Florida 17 Statutes, must be granted cultivation authorization by the 18 Department of Health and is authorized to operate as a 19 dispensing organization for the full term of its original 20 approval and all subsequent renewals pursuant to s. 381.986, 21 Florida Statutes. 22 (2) If an organization that does not meet the criteria of 23 subsection (1) demonstrates in any proceeding that it was 24 entitled to be a dispensing organization under s. 381.986, 25 Florida Statutes, and applicable rules, such organization and an 26 organization meeting the criteria of subsection (1) shall both 27 be dispensing organizations in the same region listed in s. 28 381.986(5)(b), Florida Statutes. During the operations of any 29 dispensing organization meeting the criteria in this section, 30 the Department of Health may enforce rule 64-4.005, Florida 31 Administrative Code, as filed on June 17, 2015.