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Rep. Barbara Hernandez
Filed: 3/19/2025
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1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1598
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2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1598 on page 2, by |
3 | | replacing lines 1 through 6 with the following: |
4 | | ""Health care facility" does not include: (i) a health |
5 | | care facility that is a critical access hospital as designated |
6 | | by the Department of Public Health in accordance with 42 CFR |
7 | | 485, Subpart F; (ii) a rural emergency hospital as defined |
8 | | under subsection (kkk)(2) of Section 1861 of the federal |
9 | | Social Security Act; or (iii) a health care facility that is |
10 | | located more than 60 miles from an accredited surgical |
11 | | technology program recognized by this Act."; and |
12 | | on page 3, line 8, by replacing "2027" with "2028"; and |
13 | | on page 3, by replacing lines 10 through 16 with the following: |
14 | | "(1) The surgical technologist has successfully |
15 | | completed a nationally accredited program for surgical |
16 | | technologists and is certified through the National Board |