Florida Senate - 2017                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 406
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/20/2017           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
       (Stargel) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 530 and 531
    4  insert:
    5         (e) A nursing home or assisted living facility may not
    6  prevent a qualifying patient residing in the nursing home or
    7  assisted living facility from hiring a caregiver. A nursing home
    8  or assisted living facility may prohibit its employees from
    9  acting as caregivers to residents of the nursing home or
   10  assisted living facility. A nursing home or assisted living
   11  facility is not required to provide a caregiver to a resident
   12  who is a qualifying patient.
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   14  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   15  And the title is amended as follows:
   16         Delete line 40
   17  and insert:
   18         registry; prohibiting a nursing home or assisted
   19         living facility from preventing certain residents from
   20         hiring a caregiver; authorizing a nursing home or
   21         assisted living facility to prohibit its employees
   22         from acting as caregivers to residents; providing that
   23         a nursing home or assisted living facility is not
   24         required to provide a caregiver to certain residents;
   25         revising the entities to which the