Florida Senate - 2020                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 798
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             03/11/2020 05:43 PM       .                                
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       Senator Rouson moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Present subsection (4) of section 765.542,
    6  Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (5), and a new
    7  subsection (4) is added to that section, to read:
    8         765.542 Requirements to engage in organ, tissue, or eye
    9  procurement.—
   10         (4) A for-profit eye bank must disclose its for-profit
   11  status to each person involved in a procurement process,
   12  including the transplant facility, relevant health care
   13  practitioners, family members of the donor, and living donors
   14  prior to engaging in the procurement of any eye, cornea, eye
   15  tissue, or corneal tissue for use in live-cell corneal
   16  transplantation. This subsection does not apply to a hospital or
   17  an ambulatory surgical center licensed under chapter 395 or to a
   18  district medical examiner appointed under chapter 406.
   19         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.
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   21  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   22  And the title is amended as follows:
   23         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   24  and insert:
   25                        A bill to be entitled                      
   26         An act relating to the procurement of human organs and
   27         tissue; amending s. 765.542, F.S.; requiring for
   28         profit entities to disclose their for-profit status to
   29         specified individuals prior to procuring human organs
   30         and tissue; providing exceptions; providing an
   31         effective date.