It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 5-37-10 of the General Laws in Chapter 5-37 entitled "Annual Registration -- Physicians -- Hospitals" shall be amended as follows:

{ADD 5-37-10. Annual registration -- Physicians -- Hospitals. -- ADD} On or before the first day of October in each year the board shall mail an application for annual registration to every person to whom a license to practice medicine in this state has been granted by the duly constituted licensing authority in the state. Every person so licensed who intends to engage in the practice of his or her profession during the ensuing year shall register his or her license by filing with the board such application duly executed together with such registration form and fee as shall be established by regulation by the Director of the Department of Health. Upon receipt of such application and fee the board shall issue a registration certificate effective January 2 and expiring the following January 1, and such registration certificate shall render the holder thereof a registered practitioner of medicine for that registration period.

The registration certificate of all physicians whose renewals accompanied by the prescribed fee are not filed on or before the first day of January shall be automatically {DEL revoked DEL} {ADD lapsed ADD} . The board may in its discretion and upon the payment by the physician of the current registration fee plus an additional fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) reinstate any certificate {DEL revoked DEL} {ADD lapsed ADD} under the provisions of this section.

Hospitals shall, on or before the first day of December of each year, submit an application and annual fee to the board as a condition of rendering hospital services in the state of Rhode Island. The form of application and fee shall be as the Director shall, by regulation, establish; provided however that the ratio of payment between hospital per bed licensing fees and the combined licensing and board of medical licensure and discipline fees paid by physicians shall remain the same as the ratio that existed as of January 1, 1987.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.