HB 281

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to paramedic certification; amending s.
3	401.27, F.S.; authorizing physician assistants who meet
4	specified criteria to be certified as paramedics;
5	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.  Subsection (7) of section 401.27, Florida
10	Statutes, is amended to read:
11	401.27  Personnel; standards and certification.--
12	(7)  A physician, physician assistant, dentist, or
13	registered nurse may be certified as a paramedic if the
14	physician, physician assistant, dentist, or registered nurse is
15	certified in this state as an emergency medical technician, has
16	passed the required emergency medical technician curriculum, has
17	successfully completed an advanced cardiac life support course,
18	has passed the examination for certification as a paramedic, and
19	has met other certification requirements specified by rule of
20	the department. A physician, physician assistant, dentist, or
21	registered nurse so certified must be recertified under this
22	section.
23	Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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