Florida Senate - 2018                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 906
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Young) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 101 - 115
    4  and insert:
    5  drawings, and diagrams of a health care facility should be made
    6  exempt from s. 119.07(1), Florida Statutes, and s. 24(a),
    7  Article I of the State Constitution to ensure the safety of the
    8  health care facility’s staff, patients, and visitors. Building
    9  plans, blueprints, schematic drawings, diagrams, preliminary
   10  plans, and construction documents the Agency for Health Care
   11  Administration and other governmental agencies receive which
   12  depict the internal layout or structural elements of hospitals,
   13  ambulatory surgical centers, nursing homes, hospices, and
   14  intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled
   15  are currently public records and are subject to release upon
   16  request. The Agency for Health Care Administration reviews the
   17  building plans for proposed health care facility construction to
   18  ensure compliance with building codes and agency rules and
   19  standards in order to protect the public health and safety.
   20  These building plans include diagrams and schematics of building
   21  floor plans, communication systems, medical gas systems,
   22  electrical systems, and other physical plant and security
   23  details depicting the internal layout and structural elements of
   24  the health care facilities.