Florida Senate - 2021                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1568
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Rodriguez) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 232 and 233
    4  insert:
    5         Section 6. Paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section
    6  456.47, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         456.47 Use of telehealth to provide services.—
    8         (2) PRACTICE STANDARDS.—
    9         (c) A telehealth provider, acting within the scope of his
   10  or her practice and in accordance with chapter 893, may not use
   11  telehealth to prescribe a controlled substance listed in
   12  Schedule III, Schedule IV, or Schedule V of s. 893.03 and may
   13  use telehealth to prescribe a controlled substance listed in
   14  Schedule II of s. 893.03 if unless the controlled substance is
   15  prescribed for the following:
   16         1. The treatment of a psychiatric disorder;
   17         2. Inpatient treatment at a hospital licensed under chapter
   18  395;
   19         3. The treatment of a patient receiving hospice services as
   20  defined in s. 400.601; or
   21         4. The treatment of a resident of a nursing home facility
   22  as defined in s. 400.021; or
   23         5. The treatment of a post-operative patient′s acute pain
   24  resulting from surgery within 14 days after the surgery has been
   25  performed, in accordance with the prescription supply
   26  requirements of s. 456.44(5).
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   29  And the title is amended as follows:
   30         Delete line 28
   31  and insert:
   32         changes; amending s. 456.47, F.S.; authorizing
   33         telehealth providers to prescribe specified controlled
   34         substances through telehealth under certain
   35         circumstances; amending s. 460.406, F.S.; revising