HOUSE AMENDMENT
                                         Bill No. SB 782, 1st Eng.
    Amendment No. 19 (for drafter's use only)
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11  Representative(s) Fasano offered the following:
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13         Amendment to Amendment (600753) (with title amendment) 
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17         Section 2.  Section 483.2453, Florida Statutes, is
18  created to read:
19         (1)  The Agency for Health Care Administration shall
20  obtain the following information from clinical laboratories as
21  a condition of licensure or licensure renewal:
22         (a)  Contracts and agreements between the clinical
23  laboratory and a dialysis center or company,
24         (b)  Contracts and agreements between the clinical
25  laboratory and medical clinics engaged in the provision of
26  dialysis services, nephrology diagnosis, or treatment related
27  to End Stage Renal Disease, and
28         (c)  Contracts and agreements between the clinical
29  laboratory and physicians or other practitioners engaged in
30  the provision of dialysis services, nephrology diagnosis, or
31  treatment related to End Stage Renal Disease.
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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT
                                         Bill No. SB 782, 1st Eng.
    Amendment No. 19 (for drafter's use only)
 1         (2)  The agency shall review the information required
 2  in subsection (1) and may initiate an investigation, conduct
 3  an inspection, or request additional information as a result
 4  thereof prior to issuing or renewing a license.
 5         (3)  The Agency for Health Care Administration shall
 6  provide a summary of the information reviewed, and
 7  recommendations relating to such findings, to the Legislature
 8  by January 1, 2004.
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12  And the title is amended as follows:
13         On page 129, line 20, of the amendment
14  remove:  "providing penalties"
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16  and insert in lieu thereof:
17         creating s. 484.2453, F.S.; requiring certain
18         information to be provided by clinical
19         laboratories to agency, requiring review, and
20         requiring report to the Legislature;
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