Florida Senate - 2019                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1712
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Harrell) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 440 - 448
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 13. Effective upon this act becoming a law:
    6         (1) The Agency for Health Care Administration may not
    7  initiate a review cycle or accept letters of intent or
    8  applications for the issuance of a certificate of need for the
    9  new construction or establishment of a freestanding hospital.
   10         (2) The agency shall issue a certificate of need to any
   11  pending applicant for a certificate of need for the new
   12  construction or establishment of a freestanding general
   13  hospital:
   14         (a) With 80 or more beds;
   15         (b) With intensive care, progressive care, and medical
   16  surgical beds;
   17         (c) With an onsite emergency department that will be
   18  operational 24 hours per day, 7 days per week; and
   19         (d) Whose application for a certificate of need has been
   20  approved by the agency, regardless of the litigation status of
   21  the application.
   22         (3) For any pending applicant for a certificate of need for
   23  the new construction or establishment of a freestanding hospital
   24  that does not meet the criteria in subsection (2), sections
   25  395.0191, 395.1055, 395.6025, 408.032, 408.034, 408.035,
   26  408.036, 408.037, 408.039, and 408.043, Florida Statutes (2018),
   27  and any rules adopted thereunder remain in effect until such
   28  time as the agency has either issued the applicant a certificate
   29  of need or has denied the application and all appeals of the
   30  denial have been exhausted.
   31         Section 14. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this
   32  act and except for this section, which shall take effect upon
   33  this act becoming a law, this act shall take effect July 1,
   34  2019.
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   36  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   37  And the title is amended as follows:
   38         Delete lines 43 - 44
   39  and insert:
   40         hospitals; prohibiting the agency from initiating a
   41         review cycle or from accepting letters of intent or
   42         applications for the issuance of certificate of need
   43         for the new construction or the establishment of a
   44         freestanding hospital; requiring the agency to issue
   45         such a certificate of need to certain applicants,
   46         regardless of litigation status; providing
   47         applicability; providing effective dates.