Florida Senate - 2022                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1374
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Rodriguez) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (7) is added to section 483.801,
    6  Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         483.801 Exemptions.—This part applies to all clinical
    8  laboratories and clinical laboratory personnel within this
    9  state, except:
   10         (7) Registered nurses licensed under chapter 464 who are
   11  determined by the clinical laboratory director of a hospital or
   12  hospital-based off-campus emergency department licensed under
   13  chapter 395 to be qualified under 42 C.F.R. s. 493.1423 to
   14  perform only moderate-level or waiver-level clinical laboratory
   15  testing in accordance with s. 395.0091 within the hospital or
   16  hospital-based off-campus emergency department with a separate
   17  federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)
   18  program clinical laboratory certification under 42 C.F.R. part
   19  493.
   20         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.
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   22  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   23  And the title is amended as follows:
   24         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   25  and insert:
   26                        A bill to be entitled                      
   27         An act relating to clinical laboratory testing;
   28         amending s. 483.801, F.S.; exempting registered nurses
   29         from clinical laboratory personnel licensure
   30         requirements under certain circumstances; providing an
   31         effective date.