Florida Senate - 2022                      CS for CS for SB 1374
       
       
        
       By the Committees on Appropriations; and Health Policy; and
       Senator Rodriguez
       
       
       
       
       576-03237-22                                          20221374c2
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to clinical laboratory testing;
    3         amending s. 483.801, F.S.; exempting registered nurses
    4         from clinical laboratory personnel licensure
    5         requirements under certain circumstances; providing an
    6         effective date.
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    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Subsection (7) is added to section 483.801,
   11  Florida Statutes, to read:
   12         483.801 Exemptions.—This part applies to all clinical
   13  laboratories and clinical laboratory personnel within this
   14  state, except:
   15         (7) Registered nurses licensed under chapter 464 who are
   16  determined by the clinical laboratory director of a hospital or
   17  hospital-based off-campus emergency department licensed under
   18  chapter 395 to be qualified under 42 C.F.R. s. 493.1423 to
   19  perform only moderate-level or waiver-level clinical laboratory
   20  testing in accordance with s. 395.0091 within the hospital or
   21  hospital-based off-campus emergency department with a separate
   22  federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)
   23  program clinical laboratory certification under 42 C.F.R. part
   24  493.
   25         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.