Florida Senate - 2017                              CS for SB 732
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Health Policy; and Senator Steube
       
       
       
       
       
       588-03384-17                                           2017732c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to physician assistant workforce
    3         surveys; amending ss. 458.347 and 459.022, F.S.;
    4         requiring that a physician assistant license renewal
    5         include the submission of a physician assistant
    6         workforce survey; requiring the Department of Health
    7         to report the data collected from such surveys to the
    8         boards; providing rulemaking authority; providing an
    9         effective date.
   10          
   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (7) of section
   14  458.347, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   15         458.347 Physician assistants.—
   16         (7) PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT LICENSURE.—
   17         (b)1. The license must be renewed biennially. Each renewal
   18  must include:
   19         a.1. A renewal fee not to exceed $500 as set by the boards.
   20         b.2. Acknowledgment of no felony convictions in the
   21  previous 2 years.
   22         c. A completed physician assistant workforce survey, which
   23  shall be administered in the same manner as the physician survey
   24  established in s. 458.3191 and must contain the same information
   25  required in s. 458.3191(1) and (2).
   26         2. Beginning July 1, 2018, and every 2 years thereafter,
   27  the department shall report the data collected from the
   28  physician assistant workforce surveys to the boards.
   29         3. The department shall adopt rules to implement this
   30  paragraph.
   31         Section 2. Paragraph (b) of subsection (7) of section
   32  459.022, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   33         459.022 Physician assistants.—
   34         (7) PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT LICENSURE.—
   35         (b)1. The licensure must be renewed biennially. Each
   36  renewal must include:
   37         a.1. A renewal fee not to exceed $500 as set by the boards.
   38         b.2. Acknowledgment of no felony convictions in the
   39  previous 2 years.
   40         c. A completed physician assistant workforce survey, which
   41  shall be administered in the same manner as the physician survey
   42  established in s. 459.0081 and must contain the same information
   43  required in s. 459.0081(1) and (2).
   44         2. Beginning July 1, 2018, and every 2 years thereafter,
   45  the department shall report the data collected from the
   46  physician assistant workforce surveys to the boards.
   47         3. The department shall adopt rules to implement this
   48  paragraph.
   49         Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.
   50