Florida Senate - 2016                                     SB 586
       
       
        
       By Senator Stargel
       
       
       
       
       
       15-00526-16                                            2016586__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to responsibilities of health care
    3         providers; repealing s. 383.336, F.S., relating to
    4         practice parameters for physicians performing
    5         caesarean section deliveries in provider hospitals;
    6         creating s. 395.0192, F.S.; requiring a hospital to
    7         notify certain obstetrical physicians within a
    8         specified timeframe before the hospital closes its
    9         obstetrical department or ceases to provide
   10         obstetrical services; providing an effective date.
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   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Section 383.336, Florida Statutes, is repealed.
   15         Section 2. Section 395.0192, Florida Statutes, is created
   16  to read:
   17         395.0192 Duty to notify physicians.—A hospital shall notify
   18  each obstetrical physician who has privileges at the hospital at
   19  least 120 days before the hospital closes its obstetrical
   20  department or ceases to provide obstetrical services.
   21         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.