Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 768
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  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