§ 483.823, Fla. Stat. · Part I. CLINICAL LABORATORY PERSONNEL
Qualifications of clinical laboratory personnel.
Text — 2026 Florida Statutes
(1) The board shall prescribe minimal qualifications for clinical laboratory personnel and shall issue a license to any person who meets the minimum qualifications and who demonstrates that she or he possesses the character, training, and ability to qualify in those areas for which the license is sought.
(2) Personnel qualifications may require appropriate education, training, or experience or the passing of an examination in appropriate subjects or any combination of these, but a practitioner of the healing arts licensed to practice in this state is not required to obtain any license or to pay any fee under this part.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in s. 483.812, a technologist or technician applicant for licensure who satisfies the requirements in 42 C.F.R. s. 493.1489 to perform high complexity testing is deemed to have satisfied the minimum qualifications for licensure under this part to perform high complexity testing as a technologist or technician in this state.
(4) Except as otherwise provided in s. 483.812, a technician applicant for licensure who satisfies the requirements in 42 C.F.R. s. 493.1423 to perform moderate complexity testing is deemed to have satisfied the minimum qualifications for licensure under this part to perform moderate complexity testing as a technician in this state.
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History
s. 32, ch. 92-58; s. 444, ch. 97-103; s. 168, ch. 97-264; s. 102, ch. 2018-24; s. 2, ch. 2026-134.
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