Florida Senate - 2022 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 562
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
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Senator Cruz moved the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete lines 69 - 151
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5 (d) The department shall expedite all applications
6 submitted by a spouse of an active duty member of the Armed
7 Forces of the United States pursuant to this subsection and
8 shall issue a license within 7 days after receipt of a complete
9 application that includes all required documentation under
10 subparagraphs (a)1.-4.
11 Section 2. Present paragraphs (a), (c), and (e) through (i)
12 of subsection (4) of section 456.024, Florida Statutes, are
13 amended, and a new paragraph (i) is added to that subsection, to
14 read:
15 456.024 Members of Armed Forces in good standing with
16 administrative boards or the department; spouses; licensure.—
17 (4)(a) The board, or the department if there is no board,
18 shall may issue a temporary professional license to the spouse
19 of an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United
20 States who submits to the department:
21 1. A completed application upon a form prepared and
22 furnished by the department in accordance with the board’s
23 rules;
24 2. The required application fee;
25 3. Proof that the applicant is married to a member of the
26 Armed Forces of the United States who is on active duty;
27 3.4. Proof that the applicant holds a valid license for the
28 profession issued by another state, the District of Columbia, or
29 a possession or territory of the United States, and is not the
30 subject of any disciplinary proceeding in any jurisdiction in
31 which the applicant holds a license to practice a profession
32 regulated by this chapter;
33 4.5. Proof that the applicant’s spouse is assigned to a
34 duty station in this state pursuant to the member’s official
35 active duty military orders; and
36 5.6. Proof that the applicant would otherwise be entitled
37 to full licensure under the appropriate practice act, and is
38 eligible to take the respective licensure examination as
39 required in Florida.
40 (c) Each board, or the department if there is no board,
41 shall review the results of the state and federal criminal
42 history checks according to the level 2 screening standards in
43 s. 435.04 when granting an exemption and when granting or
44 denying the temporary license.
45 (e) The department shall waive the applicant’s licensure
46 set an application fee, which may not exceed the cost of issuing
47 the license.
48 (f) A temporary license expires 12 months after the date of
49 issuance and is not renewable.
50 (g) An applicant for a temporary license under this
51 subsection is subject to the requirements under s. 456.013(3)(a)
52 and (c).
53 (g)(h) An applicant shall be deemed ineligible for a
54 temporary license pursuant to this section if the applicant:
55 1. Has been convicted of or pled nolo contendere to,
56 regardless of adjudication, any felony or misdemeanor related to
57 the practice of a health care profession;
58 2. Has had a health care provider license revoked or
59 suspended from another of the United States, the District of
60 Columbia, or a United States territory;
61 3. Has been reported to the National Practitioner Data
62 Bank, unless the applicant has successfully appealed to have his
63 or her name removed from the data bank; or
64 4. Has previously failed the Florida examination required
65 to receive a license to practice the profession for which the
66 applicant is seeking a license.
67 (h)(i) The board, or the department if there is no board,
68 may revoke a temporary license upon finding that the individual
69 violated the profession’s governing practice act.
70 (i) The board, or the department if there is no board,
71 shall expedite all applications submitted by a spouse of an
72 active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States
73 pursuant to this subsection and shall issue a license within 7
74 days after receipt of all required documentation for such
75 application.
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78 And the title is amended as follows:
79 Delete lines 4 - 22
80 and insert:
81 Business and Professional Regulation to expedite
82 professional license applications submitted by spouses
83 of active duty members of the Armed Forces of the
84 United States; requiring the department to issue
85 certain licenses within a specified timeframe;
86 amending s. 456.024, F.S.; requiring the Department of
87 Health and certain boards to issue a professional
88 license to spouses of active duty members of the Armed
89 Forces of the United States if certain requirements
90 are met; requiring the department to waive the
91 application fee for such license applications;
92 requiring the department and certain boards to
93 expedite applications for such licenses and to issue
94 such licenses within a specified timeframe; conforming
95 provisions to