Florida Senate - 2018 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 1876 Ì647210lÎ647210 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House Comm: RCS . 01/24/2018 . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Health Policy (Young) recommended the following: 1 Senate Substitute for Amendment (735918) (with title 2 amendment) 3 4 Delete lines 521 - 538 5 and insert: 6 (e) Notwithstanding the statutory capacity limits 7 established in s. 395.402(1), a trauma center is eligible for 8 designation if all of the following apply: 9 1. The trauma center was not verified by the department 10 before December 15, 2017; 11 2. The department initially provisionally approved the 12 trauma center to begin operations in May 2017; 13 3. The trauma center is currently operating as a 14 provisional Level II trauma center; 15 4. The department determines that the trauma center has met 16 the application and operational requirements of this section for 17 a Level II trauma center; and 18 5. The department’s decision to provisionally approve the 19 trauma center is: 20 a. Supported by a recommended order from the Division of 21 Administrative Hearings and, if the order is appealed, the 22 department’s decision is upheld on appeal; or 23 b. Not supported by a recommended order from the Division 24 of Administrative Hearings, but the department’s decision is 25 upheld on appeal. 26 27 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 28 And the title is amended as follows: 29 Delete lines 60 - 62 30 and insert: 31 requirements; providing that certain currently 32 operating trauma centers are eligible to be designated 33 as trauma centers by the department if certain 34 criteria are met;