HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. HB 235
Amendment No. 1 (for drafter's use only)
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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11 The Council for Healthy Communities offered the following:
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13 Amendment (with title amendment)
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15 remove from the bill: everything after the enacting clause,
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18 Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 456.031, Florida
19 Statutes, is amended to read:
20 456.031 Requirement for instruction on domestic
21 violence.--
22 (3)(a) In lieu of completing a course as required in
23 subsection (1), a licensee or certificateholder may complete a
24 course in end-of-life care and palliative health care, if the
25 licensee or certificateholder has completed an approved
26 domestic violence course in the immediately preceding
27 biennium.
28 (b) In lieu of completing a course as required by
29 subsection (1), a person licensed under chapter 466, who has
30 completed an approved domestic violence education course in
31 the immediately preceding 2 years, may complete a course
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HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. HB 235
Amendment No. 1 (for drafter's use only)
1 approved by the Board of Dentistry.
2 Section 2. Subsection (9) of section 456.033, Florida
3 Statutes, is amended to read:
4 456.033 Requirement for instruction for certain
5 licensees on human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune
6 deficiency syndrome.--
7 (9)(a) In lieu of completing a course as required in
8 subsection (1), the licensee may complete a course in
9 end-of-life care and palliative health care, so long as the
10 licensee completed an approved AIDS/HIV course in the
11 immediately preceding biennium.
12 (b) In lieu of completing a course as required by
13 subsection (1), a person licensed under chapter 466, who has
14 completed an approved AIDS/HIV course in the immediately
15 preceding 2 years, may complete a course approved by the Board
16 of Dentistry.
17 Section 3. Subsection (9) is added to section 627.419,
18 Florida Statutes, to read:
19 627.419 Construction of policies.--
20 (9) With respect to any group or individual insurer
21 covering dental services, each claimant, or dentist acting for
22 a claimant, who has had a claim denied as not medically or
23 dentally necessary or who has had a claim payment based on an
24 alternate dental service in accordance with accepted dental
25 standards for adequate and appropriate care must be provided
26 an opportunity for an appeal to the insurer's licensed dentist
27 who is responsible for the medical necessity reviews under the
28 plan or is a member of the plan's peer review group. The
29 appeal may be by telephone, and the insurer's dentist must
30 respond within a reasonable time, not to exceed 15 business
31 days.
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HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. HB 235
Amendment No. 1 (for drafter's use only)
1 Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2001,
2 and section 3 of this act, amending section 627.419, Florida
3 Statutes, shall apply to policies issued or renewed after that
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8 And the title is amended as follows:
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10 remove from the title of the bill: all of said lines,
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13 An act relating to dentistry; amending s.
14 456.031, F.S.; providing an alternative by
15 which licensees may comply with a general
16 requirement that they take domestic violence
17 education courses; amending s. 456.033, F.S.;
18 providing an alternative by which licensees may
19 comply with a general requirement that they
20 take AIDS/HIV education courses; amending s.
21 627.419, F.S.; providing for appeals from
22 certain adverse determinations relating to
23 dental service claims; providing application;
24 providing an effective date.
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