Florida Senate - 2018                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1876
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  01/24/2018           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Young) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (735918) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Delete lines 521 - 538
    5  and insert:
    6         (e) Notwithstanding the statutory capacity limits
    7  established in s. 395.402(1), a trauma center is eligible for
    8  designation if all of the following apply:
    9         1. The trauma center was not verified by the department
   10  before December 15, 2017;
   11         2. The department initially provisionally approved the
   12  trauma center to begin operations in May 2017;
   13         3. The trauma center is currently operating as a
   14  provisional Level II trauma center;
   15         4. The department determines that the trauma center has met
   16  the application and operational requirements of this section for
   17  a Level II trauma center; and
   18         5. The department’s decision to provisionally approve the
   19  trauma center is:
   20         a. Supported by a recommended order from the Division of
   21  Administrative Hearings and, if the order is appealed, the
   22  department’s decision is upheld on appeal; or
   23         b. Not supported by a recommended order from the Division
   24  of Administrative Hearings, but the department’s decision is
   25  upheld on appeal.
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   28  And the title is amended as follows:
   29         Delete lines 60 - 62
   30  and insert:
   31         requirements; providing that certain currently
   32         operating trauma centers are eligible to be designated
   33         as trauma centers by the department if certain
   34         criteria are met;