Florida Senate - 2014                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1486
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Bean moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 1062 and 1063
    4  insert:
    5         Section 11. Subsection (2) of section 468.1665, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         468.1665 Board of Nursing Home Administrators; membership;
    8  appointment; terms.—
    9         (2) Effective January 1, 2015, four Three members of the
   10  board must be licensed nursing home administrators. One member
   11  Two members of the board must be a health care practitioner
   12  practitioners. The remaining two members of the board must be
   13  laypersons who are not, and have never been, nursing home
   14  administrators or members of any health care profession or
   15  occupation. At least one member of the board must be 60 years of
   16  age or older. The Governor may reappoint members in order to
   17  comply with this requirement by January 1, 2015.
   18         Section 12. Subsection (2) of section 468.1695, Florida
   19  Statutes, is amended to read:
   20         468.1695 Licensure by examination.—
   21         (2) The department shall examine each applicant who the
   22  board certifies has completed the application form and remitted
   23  an examination fee set by the board not to exceed $250 and who:
   24         (a)1. Holds a baccalaureate or master’s degree from an
   25  accredited college or university and majored in health care
   26  administration, health services administration, or an equivalent
   27  major, or has credit for at least 60 semester hours in subjects,
   28  as prescribed by rule of the board, which prepare the applicant
   29  for total management of a nursing home; and
   30         2. Has fulfilled the requirements of a college-affiliated
   31  or university-affiliated internship in nursing home
   32  administration or of a 1,000-hour nursing home administrator-in
   33  training program prescribed by the board; or
   34         (b)1. Holds a baccalaureate degree from an accredited
   35  college or university; and
   36         2.a. Has fulfilled the requirements of a 2,000-hour nursing
   37  home administrator-in-training program prescribed by the board;
   38  or
   39         b. Has 1 year of management experience allowing for the
   40  application of executive duties and skills, including the
   41  staffing, budgeting, and directing of resident care, dietary,
   42  and bookkeeping departments within a skilled nursing facility,
   43  hospital, hospice, assisted living facility with a minimum of 60
   44  licensed beds, or geriatric residential treatment program and,
   45  if such experience is not in a skilled nursing facility, has
   46  fulfilled the requirements of a 1,000-hour nursing home
   47  administrator-in-training program prescribed by the board.
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   49  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   50  And the title is amended as follows:
   51         Between lines 82 and 83
   52  insert:
   53         amending s. 468.1665, F.S.; increasing the number of
   54         members of the Board of Nursing Home Administrators
   55         who must be licensed nursing home administrators and
   56         decreasing the number of members who must be health
   57         care practitioners; amending s. 468.1695, F.S.;
   58         revising the qualifications of applicants who may sit
   59         for the licensed nursing home administrator
   60         examination to include an applicant with a master’s
   61         degree in certain subjects;