Florida Senate - 2009 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS/HB 597, 1st Eng.
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
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Floor: WD/2R .
04/29/2009 05:36 PM .
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Senator Storms moved the following:
1 Senate Amendment
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3 Delete lines 117 - 208
4 and insert:
5 420.621 Definitions; ss. 420.621-420.627.—As used in ss.
6 420.621-420.628 420.621-420.627, the term following terms shall
7 have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise
8 requires:
9 (1) “Continuum of care” means the community components
10 needed to organize and deliver housing and services to meet the
11 specific needs of people who are homeless as they move to stable
12 housing and maximum self-sufficiency. It includes action steps
13 to end homelessness and prevent a return to homelessness.
14 (2) “Council on Homelessness” means the council created in
15 s. 420.622.
16 (1) “AFDC” means Aid to Families with Dependent Children as
17 administered under chapter 409.
18 (3)(2) “Department” means the Department of Children and
19 Family Services.
20 (4)(3) “District” means a service district of the
21 department of Children and Family Services, as set forth in s.
22 20.19.
23 (5)(4) “Homeless,” applied to an individual, or “individual
24 experiencing homelessness” means “Homeless” refers to an
25 individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime
26 residence and includes or an individual who has a primary
27 nighttime residence that is:
28 (a) Is sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of
29 housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason;
30 (b) Is living in a motel, hotel, travel trailer park, or
31 camping ground due to a lack of alternative adequate
32 accommodations;
33 (c) Is living in an emergency or transitional shelter; A
34 supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to
35 provide temporary living accommodations, including welfare
36 hotels, congregate shelters, and transitional housing for the
37 mentally ill;
38 (b) An institution that provides a temporary residence for
39 individuals intended to be institutionalized; or
40 (d)(c) Has a primary nighttime residence that is a public
41 or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a
42 regular sleeping accommodation for human beings;
43 (e) Is living in a car, park, public space, abandoned
44 building, bus or train station, or similar setting; or
45 (f) Is a migratory individual who qualifies as homeless
46 because he or she is living in circumstances described in
47 paragraphs (a)-(e).
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49 The terms do term does not refer to an any individual imprisoned
50 or otherwise detained pursuant to state or federal law or to
51 individuals or families who are sharing housing due to cultural
52 preferences, voluntary arrangements, or traditional networks of
53 support. The terms include an individual who has been released
54 from jail, prison, the juvenile justice system, the child
55 welfare system, a mental health and developmental disability
56 facility, a residential addiction treatment program, or a
57 hospital, for whom no subsequent residence has been identified,
58 and who lacks the resources and support network to obtain
59 housing.
60 (6)(5) “Local coalition for the homeless” means a coalition
61 established pursuant to s. 420.623.
62 (7)(6) “New and temporary homeless” means those individuals
63 or families who are homeless due to societal external factors,
64 such as unemployment or other loss of income, personal or
65 family-life crises, or the shortage of low-income housing.
66 (8)(7) “State Office on Homelessness” means the state office
67 created in s. 420.622 “Secretary” means the secretary of the
68 Department of Children and Family Services.