Florida Senate - 2018                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1134
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  01/16/2018           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Young) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
    2  
    3         Between lines 15 and 16
    4  insert:
    5         (4) PHYSICIAN CERTIFICATION.—
    6         (h) The department, the Board of Medicine, and the Board of
    7  Osteopathic Medicine may adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1)
    8  and 120.54 to implement this subsection. Rules adopted pursuant
    9  to this subsection must include a process by which a patient may
   10  change qualified physicians while retaining an active
   11  registration on the medical marijuana use registry. This process
   12  must include safeguards to ensure that any new physician
   13  certification issued to the patient after changing physicians
   14  does not combine with any existing patient certification to
   15  allow the patient to possess more than the 70-day supply limits.
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   17  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   18  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   19         Delete lines 13 - 14
   20  and insert:
   21         Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subsection (4) and paragraph
   22  (a) of subsection (8) of section 381.986, Florida Statutes, are
   23  amended to read:
   24  
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   26  And the title is amended as follows:
   27         Delete lines 1 - 2
   28  and insert:
   29         An act relating to Department of Health
   30         responsibilities related to medical marijuana;
   31         amending s. 381.986, F.S.; requiring the Department of
   32         Health to adopt rules to allow qualified patients to
   33         change qualified physicians; deleting an