Senate Bill 0248c1

    Florida Senate - 1998                            CS for SB 248

    By the Committee on Health Care and Senator Brown-Waite





    317-2058-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the regulation of health

  3         care professionals; creating s. 455.569, F.S.;

  4         providing for the revocation of the licenses of

  5         health care professionals who are convicted of

  6         sexual misconduct; providing an effective date.

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  8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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10         Section 1.  Section 455.569, Florida Statutes, is

11  created to read:

12         455.569 Sexual misconduct; revocation of license,

13  certificate, or registration.--Notwithstanding any other law,

14  each board within the jurisdiction of the Department of

15  Health, or the department if there is no board, shall

16  permanently revoke the license, certificate, or registration

17  of any health care practitioner or other licensee under the

18  jurisdiction of the Division of Medical Quality Assurance of

19  the Department of Health who has been found by the board, or

20  the department if there is no board, to have been convicted or

21  found guilty of, or entered a plea of nolo contendere to,

22  regardless of adjudication, a felony in any jurisdiction which

23  directly relates to sexual misconduct in the practice of that

24  profession.

25         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1998.

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    Florida Senate - 1998                            CS for SB 248
    317-2058-98




  1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  2                         Senate Bill 248

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  4  The committee substitute creates s. 455.569, F.S., to require
    each board within the Department of Health or the department,
  5  if there is no board, to permanently revoke the license,
    certificate, or registration of any health care professional
  6  who has been found by his or her regulatory board or the
    department, as appropriate, to have been convicted or found
  7  guilty of, or entered a plea of nolo contendere to, regardless
    of adjudication, to a felony in any jurisdiction which
  8  directly relates to sexual misconduct in the practice of that
    profession. The committee substitute no longer defines sexual
  9  misconduct for purposes of licensure revocation of health care
    professionals under the department's regulatory jurisdiction.
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