Florida Senate - 2025 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 768
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: RCS .
03/19/2025 .
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The Committee on Health Policy (Calatayud) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete lines 22 - 43
4 and insert:
5 that a person or an entity that who possesses a direct
6 controlling interest does not directly hold, either directly or
7 indirectly, regardless of ownership structure, an interest in an
8 entity that has a business relationship with a foreign country
9 of concern or that is subject to s. 287.135.
10 (b) For purposes of this subsection, the term:
11 1. “Business relationship” means engaging in commerce in
12 any form, including, but not limited to, acquiring, developing,
13 maintaining, owning, selling, possessing, leasing, or operating
14 equipment, facilities, personnel, products, services, personal
15 property, real property, or military equipment, or any other
16 apparatus of business or commerce.
17 2. “Foreign country of concern” means the People’s Republic
18 of China, the Russian Federation, the Islamic Republic of Iran,
19 the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Republic of Cuba,
20 the Venezuelan regime of Nicolas Maduro, or the Syrian Arab
21 Republic, including any agency of such foreign country of
22 concern has the same meaning as in s. 692.201.
23 3. “Interest” has the same meaning as in s. 286.101(1).
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26 And the title is amended as follows:
27 Delete lines 6 - 8
28 and insert:
29 persons or entities possessing a specified controlling
30 interest in the licensee; revising the definition of
31 the terms “business relationship” and