Florida Senate - 2009                              CS for SB 620
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Health Regulation and Senator Oelrich
       
       
       
       
       588-02136-09                                           2009620c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to health facilities; amending s.
    3         154.205, F.S.; redefining the term “health facility”
    4         for the purpose of allowing additional types of health
    5         facilities to receive assistance from a health
    6         facilities authority; providing an effective date.
    7         
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Subsection (8) of section 154.205, Florida
   11  Statutes, is amended to read:
   12         154.205 Definitions.—The following terms, whenever used in
   13  this part, shall have the following meanings unless a different
   14  meaning clearly appears from the context:
   15         (8) “Health facility” means any private corporation
   16  organized not for profit and authorized by law to provide:
   17         (a) Hospital services in accordance with chapter 395;
   18         (b) Nursing home care services in accordance with chapter
   19  400;
   20         (c) Life care services in accordance with chapter 651;
   21         (d) Services for the developmentally disabled under chapter
   22  393;
   23         (e) Services for the mentally ill under chapter 394; or
   24         (f) Independent living, assisted living, dementia care, or
   25  hospice services hospital or nursing home care services in
   26  accordance with chapter 395 or chapter 400 or life care services
   27  in accordance with chapter 651, and also includes facilities
   28  licensed under chapters 393 and 394.
   29         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.