Florida Senate - 2021                                    SB 1546
       
       
        
       By Senator Pizzo
       
       
       
       
       
       38-01016-21                                           20211546__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to reapplication for revoked health
    3         care practitioner licenses; amending s. 456.072, F.S.;
    4         requiring, rather than authorizing, health care
    5         practitioner boards under the Department of Health to
    6         establish rules for reapplication for licensure by
    7         health care practitioners who have had their licenses
    8         permanently revoked; requiring the boards to grant
    9         such applicants opportunities at reasonable intervals
   10         to demonstrate certain competencies; requiring the
   11         board to grant an applicant such initial opportunity
   12         within a specified timeframe, if requested; specifying
   13         conditions for reapplication the boards may impose on
   14         such applicants; providing an effective date.
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   16  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   18         Section 1. Subsection (6) of section 456.072, Florida
   19  Statutes, is amended to read:
   20         456.072 Grounds for discipline; penalties; enforcement.—
   21         (6) If the board, or the department when there is no board,
   22  determines that revocation of a license is the appropriate
   23  penalty, the revocation shall be permanent. However, the board
   24  shall may establish by rule requirements for reapplication by
   25  applicants whose licenses have been permanently revoked. The
   26  board shall provide a licensee or certificateholder affected
   27  under this subsection an opportunity at reasonable intervals to
   28  demonstrate that he or she can resume the competent practice of
   29  his or her profession with reasonable skill and safety to
   30  patients. The board must grant an applicant an initial
   31  opportunity to demonstrate such competence within 10 years of
   32  the date of the revocation, if requested within that timeframe.
   33  The requirements may include, but are not limited to, satisfying
   34  current requirements for an initial license, completing 500 or
   35  more hours of practice under the supervision of a health care
   36  practitioner regulated by the same board as the applicant was
   37  before his or her license was revoked, and completing additional
   38  continuing education hours as determined by the board to ensure
   39  the competency of the applicant.
   40         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.