Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 2286
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  04/21/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Peaden) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 672 and 673
    4  insert:
    5         Section 11. Paragraph (l) of subsection (4) of section
    6  400.9905, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         400.9905 Definitions.—
    8         (4) “Clinic” means an entity at which health care services
    9  are provided to individuals and which tenders charges for
   10  reimbursement for such services, including a mobile clinic and a
   11  portable equipment provider. For purposes of this part, the term
   12  does not include and the licensure requirements of this part do
   13  not apply to:
   14         (l) Orthotic, or prosthetic, pediatric cardiological, or
   15  perinatological clinical facilities that are a publicly traded
   16  corporation or that are wholly owned, directly or indirectly, by
   17  a publicly traded corporation. As used in this paragraph, a
   18  publicly traded corporation is a corporation that issues
   19  securities traded on an exchange registered with the United
   20  States Securities and Exchange Commission as a national
   21  securities exchange.
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   24         And the title is amended as follows:
   25         Delete line 28
   26  and insert:
   27         amending s. 400.9905, F.S.; revising the definition of
   28         the term “clinic” as it relates to the Health Care
   29         Clinic Act; amending s. 400.9935, F.S.; revising
   30         accreditation