Senate Bill sb1760c1

    Florida Senate - 2004                           CS for SB 1760

    By the Committee on Health, Aging, and Long-Term Care; and
    Senator Saunders




    317-2056-04

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to health care providers;

  3         defining the term "health care practitioner";

  4         providing for waiver of biennial license

  5         renewal fees and fulfillment of a portion of

  6         continuing education hours for specified health

  7         care practitioners who provide services,

  8         without compensation, to low-income recipients

  9         as an agent of a governmental contractor;

10         providing an effective date.

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

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14         Section 1.  (1)  As used in this section, the term

15  "health care practitioner" means a physician or physician

16  assistant licensed under chapter 458, Florida Statutes; an

17  osteopathic physician or physician assistant licensed under

18  chapter 459, Florida Statutes; a chiropractic physician

19  licensed under chapter 460, Florida Statutes; a podiatric

20  physician licensed under chapter 461, Florida Statutes; an

21  advanced registered nurse practitioner, registered nurse, or

22  licensed practical nurse licensed under part I of chapter 464,

23  Florida Statutes; a dentist or dental hygienist licensed under

24  chapter 466, Florida Statutes; or a midwife licensed under

25  chapter 467, Florida Statutes, who participates as a health

26  care provider under section 766.1115, Florida Statutes.

27         (2)  Notwithstanding chapter 458, chapter 459, chapter

28  460, chapter 461, part I of chapter 464, chapter 466, or

29  chapter 467, Florida Statutes, to the contrary, any health

30  care practitioner who participates as a health care provider

31  under section 766.1115, Florida Statutes, and thereby agrees

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    Florida Senate - 2004                           CS for SB 1760
    317-2056-04




 1  with a governmental contractor to provide his or her services

 2  without compensation and as an agent of the governmental

 3  contractor to low-income recipients in accordance with section

 4  766.1115, Florida Statutes, for at least 80 hours a year for

 5  each year during the biennial licensure period, or, if the

 6  health care practitioner is retired, for at least 400 hours a

 7  year for each year during the licensure period, upon providing

 8  sufficient proof from the applicable governmental contractor

 9  that the health care practitioner has completed the hours at

10  the time of license renewal under procedures specified by the

11  Department of Health, shall be eligible for:

12         (a)  Waiver of the biennial license renewal fee for an

13  active license; and

14         (b)  Fulfillment of a maximum of 25 percent of the

15  continuing education hours required for license renewal under

16  section 456.013(9), Florida Statutes.

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

18  law.

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20          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
21                         Senate Bill 1760

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23  The bill modifies the definition of "health care practitioner"
    to include physician assistants who perform medical services
24  under the supervision of an allopathic or osteopathic
    physicians, and podiatric physicians. Podiatric physicians and
25  physician assistants are expressly included in the definition
    of "health care provider" in s. 766.1115, F.S.
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