Florida Senate - 2018                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (764628) for CS for SB 1876
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/22/2018           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Braynon) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (917002) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Delete lines 1080 - 1085
    5  and insert:
    6         Section 14. Section 16.63, Florida Statutes, is created to
    7  read:
    8         16.63 Medical Reimbursement Program for Victims of Mass
    9  Shootings.—The Medical Reimbursement Program for Victims of Mass
   10  Shootings is established in the Division of Victim Services of
   11  the Department of Legal Affairs to reimburse trauma centers
   12  verified or designated pursuant to s. 395.4025 for the medical
   13  costs of treating victims for injuries associated with a mass
   14  shooting. For purposes of this section, the term “mass shooting”
   15  means an incident in which at least four or more people are
   16  killed or injured by firearms in one or more locations in close
   17  proximity. The Department of Legal Affairs must reimburse a
   18  trauma center based on a department-approved fee schedule for
   19  the documented medical costs of treating victims for injuries
   20  associated with a mass shooting. A trauma center that requests a
   21  reimbursement through the program must accept the reimbursement
   22  as payment in full and may not bill the victim of a mass
   23  shooting or his or her family.
   24         Section 15. The sum of $10 million in recurring funds from
   25  the General Revenue Fund is appropriated to the Department of
   26  Legal Affairs to reimburse verified or designated trauma centers
   27  for documented medical costs of treating victims of mass
   28  shootings through its Medical Reimbursement Program for Victims
   29  of Mass Shootings.
   30         Section 16. Each January 1, the Department of Agriculture
   31  and Consumer Services shall transfer 10 percent of fees
   32  collected for new and renewal concealed weapon or firearm
   33  licenses from the Division of Licensing Trust Fund to the
   34  Department of Legal Affairs to reimburse verified or designated
   35  trauma centers for documented medical costs of treating victims
   36  of mass shootings through its Medical Reimbursement Program for
   37  Victims of Mass Shootings.
   38         Section 17. If the provisions of this act relating to s.
   39  395.4025(16), Florida Statutes, are held to be invalid or
   40  inoperative for any reason, the remaining provisions of this
   41  act, except for the creation by the act of s. 16.63, shall be
   42  deemed to be void and of no effect, it being the legislative
   43  intent that bill sections 1 through 13 of this act as a whole
   44  would not have been adopted.
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   47  And the title is amended as follows:
   48         Delete line 1188
   49  and insert:
   50         provisions relating to the study; creating s. 16.63,
   51         F.S.; establishing the Medical Reimbursement Program
   52         for Victims of Mass Shootings in the Department of
   53         Legal Affairs; defining the term “mass shooting”;
   54         requiring the department to reimburse verified or
   55         designated trauma centers for certain costs associated
   56         with treating victims for injuries associated with a
   57         mass shooting; requiring a verified or designated
   58         trauma center that accepts such reimbursement to
   59         accept it as payment in full; providing an
   60         appropriation; requiring the Department of Agriculture
   61         and Consumer Services to transfer, annually and by a
   62         specified date, a percentage of fees collected for new
   63         and renewal concealed weapon or firearm licenses from
   64         the Division of Licensing Trust Fund to the Department
   65         of Legal Affairs to fund the program; providing for