The Florida Senate

SB 1594: Surgical First Assistants

GENERAL BILL by Garcia ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Flores

Surgical First Assistants; Providing requirements for the performance of supervising physicians; providing the duties and scope and location of practice for certified surgical first assistants; providing contracting and employment guidelines for physicians, hospitals, clinics, or ambulatory surgical centers employing certified surgical first assistants; providing that an unlicensed person who holds himself or herself out as, or indicates or implies that he or she is, licensed commits a third-degree felony and is subject to applicable penalties; providing for payments to a physician assistant under contracts providing for payment for surgical first assisting benefits or services, etc.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  1/6/2012	Senate	• Filed
  1/17/2012	Senate	• Referred to Health Regulation; Budget -SJ 220 • Introduced -SJ 220
  2/6/2012	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Health Regulation, 02/09/12, 1:15 pm, 412 Knott Building --Not Considered
  3/9/2012	Senate	• Died in Health Regulation

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• SB 1594, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 1/6/2012 at 11:59 AM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Health Regulation (Pre-Meeting) 2/8/2012 (pdf)

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
  H 1311	Surgical First Assistants	Diaz	Identical	Last Action: 3/9/2012 H Died in Health and Human Services Quality Subcommittee Location: In committee/council (HSQS)

  Committee Amendments (1)

  Amendment	Sponsor	Filed	Last Committee Action	Format
  156390 - Amendment (Delete All) Delete everything after the enacting clause and insert:	Health Regulation (Garcia)	2/9/2012 10:47 AM		Web Page PDF

  Citations - Statutes (1)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  627.419	Construction of policies.	Page 6 (pdf)

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