Bill Text: FL S0586 | 2016 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Responsibilities of Health Care Providers

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-03-25 - Chapter No. 2016-113 [S0586 Detail]

Download: Florida-2016-S0586-Enrolled.html

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       ENROLLED
       2016 Legislature                           SB 586, 2nd Engrossed
       
       
       
       
       
       
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    2         An act relating to responsibilities of health care
    3         providers; repealing s. 383.336, F.S., relating to
    4         practice parameters for physicians performing
    5         caesarean section deliveries in provider hospitals;
    6         creating s. 395.0192, F.S.; requiring a hospital to
    7         notify certain obstetrical physicians within a
    8         specified timeframe before the hospital closes its
    9         obstetrical department or ceases to provide
   10         obstetrical services; providing an effective date.
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   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Section 383.336, Florida Statutes, is repealed.
   15         Section 2. Section 395.0192, Florida Statutes, is created
   16  to read:
   17         395.0192 Duty to notify physicians.—A hospital shall notify
   18  each obstetrical physician who has privileges at the hospital at
   19  least 120 days before the hospital closes its obstetrical
   20  department or ceases to provide obstetrical services.
   21         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.