Florida Senate - 2017                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 876
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services (Young)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
    2  
    3         Delete lines 618 - 664
    4  and insert:
    5  licensure, certification, or registration who was arrested for
    6  or charged with a felony specified in paragraph (a) or paragraph
    7  (b) before July 1, 2009.
    8         (3) The department shall refuse to renew a license,
    9  certificate, or registration of any applicant if the applicant
   10  or any principal, officer, agent, managing employee, or
   11  affiliated person of the applicant:
   12         (a) Has been convicted of, or entered a plea of guilty or
   13  nolo contendere to, regardless of adjudication, a felony under
   14  chapter 409, chapter 817, or chapter 893, or a similar felony
   15  offense committed in another state or jurisdiction, unless the
   16  applicant is currently enrolled in a pretrial diversion or drug
   17  court program that allows the withdrawal of the plea for that
   18  felony upon successful completion of that program. Any such
   19  conviction or plea excludes the applicant from licensure renewal
   20  unless the sentence and any subsequent period of probation for
   21  such conviction or plea ended:
   22         1. For felonies of the first or second degree, more than 15
   23  years before the date of application.
   24         2. For felonies of the third degree, more than 10 years
   25  before the date of application, except for felonies of the third
   26  degree under s. 893.13(6)(a).
   27         3. For felonies of the third degree under s. 893.13(6)(a),
   28  more than 5 years before the date of application.
   29         (b) Has been convicted of, or entered a plea of guilty or
   30  nolo contendere to, regardless of adjudication, a felony under
   31  21 U.S.C. ss. 801-970, or 42 U.S.C. ss. 1395-1396 since July 1,
   32  2009, unless the sentence and any subsequent period of probation
   33  for such conviction or plea ended more than 15 years before the
   34  date of the application.
   35         (c) Has been terminated for cause from the Florida Medicaid
   36  program pursuant to s. 409.913, unless the applicant has been in
   37  good standing with the Florida Medicaid program for the most
   38  recent 5 years.
   39         (d) Has been terminated for cause, pursuant to the appeals
   40  procedures established by the state, from any other state
   41  Medicaid program, unless the applicant has been in good standing
   42  with a state Medicaid program for the most recent 5 years and
   43  the termination occurred at least 20 years before the date of
   44  the application.
   45         (e) Is currently listed on the United States Department of
   46  Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General’s List of
   47  Excluded Individuals and Entities.
   48  
   49  This subsection does not apply to an applicant for renewal of
   50  licensure, certification, or registration who was arrested for
   51  or charged with a felony specified in paragraph (a) or paragraph
   52  (b) before July 1, 2009.