Senate Bill sb1666

    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1666

    By Senator Saunders





    37-1217-04

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to continuing education for

  3         health care practitioners; amending s. 456.025,

  4         F.S.; deleting requirements for the Department

  5         of Health to administer an electronic

  6         continuing education tracking system for health

  7         care practitioners; providing an effective

  8         date.

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

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12         Section 1.  Subsection (7) of section 456.025, Florida

13  Statutes, is amended to read:

14         456.025  Fees; receipts; disposition.--

15         (7)  Each board, or the department if there is no

16  board, shall establish, by rule, a fee not to exceed $250 for

17  anyone seeking approval to provide continuing education

18  courses or programs and shall establish by rule a biennial

19  renewal fee not to exceed $250 for the renewal of providership

20  of such courses. The fees collected from continuing education

21  providers shall be used for the purposes of reviewing course

22  provider applications, monitoring the integrity of the courses

23  provided, and covering legal expenses incurred as a result of

24  not granting or renewing a providership, and developing and

25  maintaining an electronic continuing education tracking

26  system. The department shall implement an electronic

27  continuing education tracking system for each new biennial

28  renewal cycle for which electronic renewals are implemented

29  after the effective date of this act and shall integrate such

30  system into the licensure and renewal system. All approved

31  continuing education providers shall provide information on

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    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1666
    37-1217-04




 1  course attendance to the department necessary to implement the

 2  electronic tracking system. The department shall, by rule,

 3  specify the form and procedures by which the information is to

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 5         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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