Florida 2020 Regular Session Status: In Committee

SB 66 — Student Loans and Scholarship Obligations of Health Care Practitioners

Last action — Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Education

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    Passed Senate
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    Passed House
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill died with 2020 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

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Summary

Student Loans and Scholarship Obligations of Health Care Practitioners; Establishing that a health care practitioner’s failure to repay a student loan or to comply with service scholarship obligations does not constitute grounds for disciplinary action; removing a civil fine; removing the requirement that the Department of Health investigate and prosecute health care practitioners for failing to repay a student loan or to comply with scholarship service obligations; removing the requirement, and related provisions, that the department immediately suspend the licenses of certain health care practitioners for failing to provide within a specified timeframe proof of new payment terms for student loans in default, etc.

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Florida Senate - 2020 SB 66 By Senator Cruz 18-00091-20 202066__ A bill to be entitled An act relating to student loans and scholarship obligations of health care practitioners;
Florida Senate - 2020 CS for SB 66 By the Committee on Health Policy;
and Senator Cruz 588-01167-20 202066c1 A bill to be entitled An act relating to student loans and scholarship obligations of health care practitioners;
amending s.
456.074, F.S.;
removing the requirement, and related provisions, that the department immediately suspend the licenses of certain health care practitioners for failing to provide within a specified timeframe proof of new payment terms for student loans in default;
17 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
23 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
19 Section 1. Paragraph (k) of subsection (1) of section 456.072, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
25 Section 1. Paragraph (k) of subsection (1) of section 456.072, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.
Section 3. Subsection (4) of section 456.074, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
456.074 Certain health care practitioners;
immediate suspension of license.— (4) Upon receipt of information that a Florida-licensed health care practitioner has defaulted on a student loan issued or guaranteed by the state or the Federal Government, the department shall notify the licensee by certified mail that he or she shall be subject to immediate suspension of license unless, within 45 days after the date of mailing, the licensee provides proof that new payment terms have been agreed upon by all parties to the loan.
The department shall issue an emergency order suspending the license of any licensee who, after 45 days following the date of mailing from the department, has failed to provide such proof.
Production of such proof shall not prohibit the department from proceeding with disciplinary action against the licensee pursuant to s.
456.073.
Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.
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Action History

  1. Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Education

  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration

  3. CS by Health Policy read 1st time

  4. Introduced

  5. Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Education

  6. Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)

  7. CS by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0

  8. On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 11/05/19, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building

  9. Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations

  10. Filed

Sponsors

  • Cruz · Primary

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Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (163)

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 66 do?
Student Loans and Scholarship Obligations of Health Care Practitioners; Establishing that a health care practitioner’s failure to repay a student loan or to comply with service scholarship obligations does not constitute grounds for disciplinary action; removing a civil fine; removing the requirement that the Department of Health investigate and prosecute health care practitioners for failing to repay a student loan or to comply with scholarship service obligations; removing the requirement, and related provisions, that the department immediately suspend the licenses of certain health care practitioners for failing to provide within a specified timeframe proof of new payment terms for student loans in default, etc.
Who sponsors SB 66?
SB 66 is sponsored by Cruz.
What is the current status of SB 66?
This bill died with 2020 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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