Florida Senate - 2016                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 460
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Bradley moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (369986) 
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    3         Delete lines 682 - 705
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 3. (1) Notwithstanding s. 381.986(5)(b), Florida
    6  Statutes, a dispensing organization that receives notice from
    7  the Department of Health that it is approved as a region’s
    8  dispensing organization, posts a $5 million performance bond in
    9  compliance with rule 64-4.002(5)(e), Florida Administrative
   10  Code, meets the requirements of and requests cultivation
   11  authorization pursuant to rule 64-4.005(2), Florida
   12  Administrative Code, and expends at least $100,000 to fulfill
   13  its legal obligations as a dispensing organization must be
   14  granted cultivation authorization by the Department of Health
   15  and is authorized to operate as a dispensing organization for
   16  the full term of its original approval and all subsequent
   17  renewals pursuant to s. 381.986, Florida Statutes.
   18         (2) If an organization that does not meet the criteria of
   19  subsection (1) receives a final determination in a proceeding by
   20  the Division of Administrative Hearings, the Department of
   21  Health, or a court of competent jurisdiction that it was
   22  entitled to be a dispensing organization, under s. 381.986,
   23  Florida Statutes, and applicable rules, such organization and an
   24  organization meeting the criteria of subsection (1) shall both
   25  be dispensing organizations in the same region listed in s.
   26  381.986(5)(b), Florida Statutes. During the operations of any
   27  dispensing organization meeting the criteria in this section,
   28  the Department of Health may enforce rule 64-4.005, Florida
   29  Administrative Code, as filed on June 17, 2015.