Senate Bill 1908

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    Florida Senate - 2000                                  SB 1908

    By Senator Sullivan





    22-857-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to clinical laboratory

  3         personnel; amending s. 483.824, F.S.; revising

  4         qualifications of clinical laboratory

  5         directors; providing an effective date.

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

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  9         Section 1.  Section 483.824, Florida Statutes, is

10  amended to read:

11         483.824  Qualifications of clinical laboratory

12  director.--A clinical laboratory director must have 4 years of

13  clinical laboratory experience with 2 years of experience in

14  the specialty to be directed or be nationally board certified

15  in the specialty to be directed, and must meet one of the

16  following requirements:

17         (1)  Be a physician licensed under chapter 458 or

18  chapter 459;

19         (2)  Hold an earned doctoral degree in a chemical,

20  physical, or biological science from a regionally accredited

21  institution and maintain national certification requirements

22  equal to those required by the federal Health Care Financing

23  Administration be nationally certified; or

24         (3)  For the subspecialty of oral pathology, be a

25  physician licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459 or a

26  dentist licensed under chapter 466.

27         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.

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    Florida Senate - 2000                                  SB 1908
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  3    Revises qualifications of clinical laboratory directors
      to require that they maintain national certification
  4    requirements equal to those required by the federal
      Health Care Financing Administration.
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