| 1 | Representative Bogdanoff offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Between lines 637 and 638, insert: |
| 5 | Section 13. Paragraph (l) of subsection (4) of section |
| 6 | 400.9905, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: |
| 7 | 400.9905 Definitions.-- |
| 8 | (4) "Clinic" means an entity at which health care services |
| 9 | are provided to individuals and which tenders charges for |
| 10 | reimbursement for such services, including a mobile clinic and a |
| 11 | portable equipment provider. For purposes of this part, the term |
| 12 | does not include and the licensure requirements of this part do |
| 13 | not apply to: |
| 14 | (l) Orthotic or prosthetic or other clinical facilities |
| 15 | that are a publicly traded corporation or that are wholly owned, |
| 16 | directly or indirectly, by a publicly traded corporation. As |
| 17 | used in this paragraph, a publicly traded corporation is a |
| 18 | corporation that issues securities traded on an exchange |
| 19 | registered with the United States Securities and Exchange |
| 20 | Commission as a national securities exchange. |
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| 25 | T I T L E A M E N D M E N T |
| 26 | Remove line 58 and insert: |
| 27 | amending s. 400.9905, F.S.; providing that the definition of the |
| 28 | term "clinic" does not include certain clinical facilities; |
| 29 | providing effective dates. |
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