The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)
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. . . , the Department conducted an annual assessment to determine how many trauma centers were needed. § 395.402 . . . MOOTNESS After oral argument in this case, the Legislature substantially amended sections 395.402 and . . . See § 395.402(4)(c), Fla. Stat. (2016). . . . a ceiling for the state (44). § 395.402(4)(b) & (c), Fla. . . . The Old Rules actually rendered the prior version of section 395.402(4) superfluous in providing for . . .
. . . .; see also § 395.402(3), Fla. . . . trauma service area," and "[t]here shall be no more than a total of 44 trauma centers in the state." § 395.402 . . .
. . . . § 395.402(4)(a)-(c), Fla. Stat. (2015). . . .
. . . In what was later codified as section 395.402, the Legislature created nineteen trauma service areas . . . Stat. (1991) (renumbered as § 395.402 by ch. 92-289, Laws of Fla.). . . . uniform, and integrated trauma system.” § 395.402(1),' Fla. . . . (k)Other appropriate criteria. § 395.402(2)-(3), Fla. Stat (2004) (emphasis added). . . . .” § 395.402(4)(b), Fla. Stat. (2004) (emphasis added). . . .
. . . Rule 64J-2.010 includes the precise language of the controlling statute, section 395.402(4)(a) & (b), . . . Law Implemented 395.401, 395.4015, 395.402, 395.405 FS. (Emphasis supplied; table reformatted.) . . . The Department’s authority for Rule 64J-2.010 is provided in section 395.402(4)(a), which explicitly . . . a system of trauma centers, the department shall use the 19 trauma service areas established in s. 395.402 . . . Section 395.402(4)(c), Florida Statutes, authorizes the Department to adopt rules to select a maximum . . . to be authorized by section 395.405, Florida Statutes and to implement sections 395.401, 395.4015, 395.402 . . . Final Order, the judge found that, although the rule claims to implement sections 395.401, 395.4015 and 395.402 . . . Similarly, the rule fails to implement the 2004 amendments to section 395.402. . . . See § 395.402(4), Fla. Stat. (2004). . . . provides, “The department shall adopt and enforce all rules necessary to administer ss. 395.401, 395.4015, 395.402 . . .