Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1516
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  02/27/2020           .                                
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       The Committee on Rules (Harrell) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 47 - 60
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraph (j) is added to subsection (1) of
    6  section 395.1055, Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         395.1055 Rules and enforcement.—
    8         (1) The agency shall adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1)
    9  and 120.54 to implement the provisions of this part, which shall
   10  include reasonable and fair minimum standards for ensuring that:
   11         (j) Hospitals providing organ transplants meet the
   12  following minimum volume of transplants by organ type:
   13         1. For heart transplants, performance of at least 12 such
   14  transplants per year.
   15         2. For liver transplants, performance of at least 5 such
   16  transplants per biennium.
   17         3. For adult kidney transplants, performance of at least 15
   18  such transplants per biennium.
   19         4. For pediatric kidney transplants, performance of at
   20  least 5 such transplants per biennium.
   21         5. For adult allogenic and autologous bone marrow
   22  transplants, performance of at least 10 transplants per year of
   23  each such transplant it offers.
   24         6. For pediatric allogenic and autologous bone marrow
   25  transplants, performance of at least 10 transplants per year of
   26  each such transplant it offers.
   27         7. For any other transplant type not specified in
   28  subparagraphs 1.-6., performance of at least 10 transplants of
   29  such transplant per year.
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   31  This paragraph expires upon the agency’s adoption of rules
   32  pursuant to s. 765.53(7).
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   34  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   35  And the title is amended as follows:
   36         Delete lines 3 - 5
   37  and insert:
   38         395.1055, F.S.; requiring the Agency for Health Care
   39         Administration to adopt by rule specified minimum
   40         standards for certain organ transplants; providing for
   41         the expiration of the requirement upon the adoption of
   42         specified rules; amending s. 627.6045,