Florida Senate - 2016                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. HB 85
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             03/08/2016 05:31 PM       .                                
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       Senator Flores moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (725590) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Between lines 240 and 241
    5  insert:
    6         Section 4. (1) The Agency for Health Care Administration,
    7  in consultation with the Board of Medicine and the Board of
    8  Osteopathic Medicine shall adopt rules to establish requirements
    9  that ensure the safe and effective delivery of pediatric
   10  surgical care in ambulatory surgical centers in accordance with
   11  the American College of Surgeons’ evidence-based standards for
   12  optimal pediatric care. The rules must establish minimum
   13  standards for pediatric-specific patient care, including at
   14  least the following:
   15         (a) Surgical risk assessment.
   16         (b) Anesthesiology.
   17         (c) Resuscitation.
   18         (d) Transfer agreements.
   19         (e) Training and certification of pediatric health care
   20  providers.
   21         (2) Until such rules have been adopted, an ambulatory
   22  surgical center may not keep infants or children younger than 18
   23  years of age later than midnight on the day of their procedures.
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   26  And the title is amended as follows:
   27         Delete line 773
   28  and insert:
   29         circumstances; requiring the Board of Medicine and the
   30         Board of Osteopathic Medicine to adopt rules
   31         establishing certain requirements; restricting certain
   32         ambulatory surgical center operations until rules are
   33         adopted; creating s. 624.27, F.S.; defining