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subsections (21) through (32), respectively, and subsections (3) and (16) of that section and present subsections (21) and (23) of that section are amended, to read: 395.002 Definitions.—As used in this chapter: (3) “Ambulatory surgical center” or “mobile surgical facility” means a facility the primary purpose of which is to provide elective surgical care, in which the patient is admitted to and discharged from such facility within the same working day and is not permitted to stay overnight, and which is not part of a hospital. However, a facility existing for the primary purpose of performing terminations of pregnancy, an office maintained by a physician for the practice of medicine, or an office maintained for the practice of dentistry may shall not be construed to be an ambulatory surgical center, provided that any facility or office which is certified or seeks certification as a Medicare ambulatory surgical center shall be licensed as an ambulatory surgical center pursuant to s. 395.003. Any structure or vehicle in which a physician maintains an office and practices surgery, and which can appear to the public to be a mobile office because the structure or vehicle operates at more than one address, shall be construed to be a mobile surgical facility. (16) “Licensed facility” means a hospital or, ambulatory surgical center, or mobile surgical facility licensed in accordance with this chapter. (21) “Mobile surgical facility” is a mobile facility in which licensed health care professionals provide elective surgical care under contract with the Department of Corrections or a private correctional facility operating pursuant to chapter 957 and in which inmate patients are admitted to and discharged from said facility within the same working day and are not permitted to stay overnight. However, mobile surgical facilities may only provide health care services to the inmate patients of the Department of Corrections, or inmate patients of a private correctional facility operating pursuant to chapter 957, and not to the general public. Ch. 2018-24 LAWS OF FLORIDA Ch. 2018-24 15 CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. (22)(23) “Premises” means those buildings, beds, and equipment located at the address of the licensed facility and all other buildings, beds, and equipment for the provision of hospital or, ambulatory surgical, or mobile surgical care located in such reasonable proximity to the address of the licensed facility as to appear to the public to be under the dominion and control of the licensee. For any licensee that is a teaching hospital as defined in s. 408.07 s. 408.07(45), reasonable proximity includes any buildings, beds, services, programs, and equipment under the dominion and control of the licensee that are located at a site with a main address that is within 1 mile of the main address of the licensed facility; and all such buildings, beds, and equipment may, at the request of a licensee or applicant, be included on the facility license as a single premises. Section 25. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1), paragraph (b) of subsection (2), and paragraph (b) of subsection (6) of section 395.003, Florida Statutes, are amended to read: 395.003 Licensure; denial, suspension, and revocation.— (1)(a) The requirements of part II of chapter 408 apply to the provision of services that require licensure pursuant to ss. 395.001-395.1065 and part II of chapter 408 and to entities licensed by or applying for such licensure from the Agency for Health Care Administration pursuant to ss. 395.001- 395.1065. A license issued by the agency is required in order to operate a hospital or, ambulatory surgical center, or mobile surgical facility in this state. (b)1. It is unlawful for a person to use or advertise to the public, in any way or by any medium whatsoever, any facility as a “hospital,” or “ambulatory surgical center,” or “mobile surgical facility” unless such facility has first secured a license under the provisions of this part. 2. This part does not apply to veterinary hospitals or to commercial business establishments using the word “hospital,” or “ambulatory surgical center,” or “mobile surgical facility” as a part of a trade name if no treatment of human beings is