Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1736
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/22/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Regulation (Latvala) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 1697 and 1698
    4  insert:
    5         Section 46. Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section
    6  408.033, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         408.033 Local and state health planning.—
    8         (2) FUNDING.—
    9         (a) The Legislature intends that the cost of local health
   10  councils be borne by assessments on selected health care
   11  facilities subject to facility licensure by the Agency for
   12  Health Care Administration, including abortion clinics, assisted
   13  living facilities, ambulatory surgical centers, birthing
   14  centers, clinical laboratories except community nonprofit blood
   15  banks and clinical laboratories operated by practitioners for
   16  exclusive use regulated under s. 483.035, home health agencies,
   17  hospices, hospitals, intermediate care facilities for the
   18  developmentally disabled, nursing homes, health care clinics,
   19  and multiphasic testing centers and by assessments on
   20  organizations subject to certification by the agency pursuant to
   21  chapter 641, part III, including health maintenance
   22  organizations and prepaid health clinics. Any fee that is
   23  assessed may be collected prospectively at the time a facility’s
   24  license is renewed and prorated for the licensing period.
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   27         And the title is amended as follows:
   28         Delete line 139
   29  and insert:
   30         operate a mobile clinic; amending s. 408.033, F.S.;
   31         providing that fees assessed on selected health care
   32         facilities and organizations may be collected
   33         prospectively at the time of licensure renewal and
   34         prorated for the licensing period; amending s.
   35         408.034, F.S.;