Bill Text: FL H4057 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Assisted Living Facilities

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-07 - Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration [H4057 Detail]

Download: Florida-2011-H4057-Introduced.html

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HB 4057

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to assisted living facilities; amending s.
3	429.14, F.S.; removing a provision that authorizes the
4	Agency for Health Care Administration to deny a license to
5	an applicant or controlling interest of an assisted living
6	facility when the applicant or controlling interest has a
7	financial or ownership interest in another licensed
8	facility upon which specified sanctions have been imposed
9	within a certain period of time; removing a provision that
10	requires the agency to provide certain information
11	relating to assisted living facility license status to the
12	Division of Hotels and Restaurants of the Department of
13	Business and Professional Regulation; providing an
14	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.  Subsections (4), (5), and (7) of section
19	429.14, Florida Statutes, are renumbered as subsections (3),
20	(4), and (5), respectively, and present subsections (3) and (6)
21	of that section are amended to read:
22	429.14  Administrative penalties.-
23	(3)  The agency may deny a license to any applicant or
24	controlling interest as defined in part II of chapter 408 which
25	has or had a 25-percent or greater financial or ownership
26	interest in any other facility licensed under this part, or in
27	any entity licensed by this state or another state to provide
28	health or residential care, which facility or entity during the
29	5 years prior to the application for a license closed due to
30	financial inability to operate; had a receiver appointed or a
31	license denied, suspended, or revoked; was subject to a
32	moratorium; or had an injunctive proceeding initiated against
33	it.
34	(6)  The agency shall provide to the Division of Hotels and
35	Restaurants of the Department of Business and Professional
36	Regulation, on a monthly basis, a list of those assisted living
37	facilities that have had their licenses denied, suspended, or
38	revoked or that are involved in an appellate proceeding pursuant
39	to s. 120.60 related to the denial, suspension, or revocation of
40	a license.
41	Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.

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