Florida Senate - 2022                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for HB 861
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Rules (Albritton) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 11 - 34
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraph (t) of subsection (1) of section
    6  456.072, Florida Statutes, is amended, and subsection (2) of
    7  that section is republished, to read:
    8         456.072 Grounds for discipline; penalties; enforcement.—
    9         (1) The following acts shall constitute grounds for which
   10  the disciplinary actions specified in subsection (2) may be
   11  taken:
   12         (t) Failing to identify the full name of a health care
   13  practitioner through written notice, which may include the
   14  wearing of a name tag or embroidered identification that also
   15  includes the professional, or orally to a patient the type of
   16  license and professional degree issued to the practitioner under
   17  which the practitioner is practicing. Any advertisement for
   18  health care services naming the practitioner must identify the
   19  professional type of license and professional degree the
   20  practitioner holds and may not contain deceptive or misleading
   21  information, including, but not limited to, any affirmative
   22  communication or representation that misstates, falsely
   23  describes, holds out, or falsely details the health care
   24  practitioner’s skills, training, expertise, education, public or
   25  private board certification, or licensure. This paragraph does
   26  not apply to a practitioner while the practitioner is providing
   27  services in a facility licensed under chapter 394, chapter 395,
   28  chapter 400, or chapter 429. Each board, or the department where
   29  there is no board, is authorized by rule to determine how its
   30  practitioners may comply with this disclosure requirement. The
   31  department shall enforce this paragraph and has the same
   32  enforcement authority as an applicable board. The department may
   33  adopt rules to implement this paragraph.
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   35  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   36  And the title is amended as follows:
   37         Delete lines 3 - 6
   38  and insert:
   39         amending s. 456.072, F.S.; revising grounds for
   40         disciplinary action against health care practitioners;
   41         requiring the Department of Health to enforce certain
   42         requirements related to identification and advertising
   43         of practitioner licensure and qualifications;
   44         providing that the department has the same enforcement
   45         authority as applicable boards; authorizing the
   46         department to adopt rules;