Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 330
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/10/2015           .                                
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       The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Dean)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Section 937.041, Florida Statutes, is created to
    6  read:
    7         937.041 Missing person with special needs pilot program.—
    8         (1) There is created a pilot program in Baker, Columbia,
    9  Hamilton, and Suwannee Counties to be known as Project Leo for
   10  the purpose of providing personal assistive technology devices
   11  to aid search and rescue efforts for persons with special needs
   12  in the case of elopement.
   13         (2) Participants for the pilot program shall be selected
   14  based on criteria developed by the Center for Autism and Related
   15  Disabilities at the University of Florida. Criteria for
   16  participation must include, at a minimum, the individual’s risk
   17  of elopement. The qualifying participants shall be selected on a
   18  first-come, first-served basis by the center to the extent of
   19  available funding within the center’s existing resources. The
   20  pilot program shall be voluntary and free to participants.
   21         (3) Under the pilot program, personal devices to aid search
   22  and rescue efforts that are attachable to clothing or otherwise
   23  worn shall be provided by the center to the sheriff’s offices of
   24  the participating counties. The devices shall be distributed to
   25  participants by the county sheriff’s offices in conjunction with
   26  the center. The center shall fund any costs associated with
   27  monitoring the devices.
   28         (4) The center shall submit a preliminary report by
   29  December 1, 2015, and a final report by December 15, 2016, to
   30  the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of
   31  the House of Representatives describing the implementation and
   32  operation of the pilot program. At a minimum, the report must
   33  include the criteria used to select participants, the number of
   34  participants, the age of the participants, the nature of the
   35  participants’ special needs, the number of participants who
   36  elope, the amount of time taken to rescue participants following
   37  elopement, and the outcome of any rescue attempts. The final
   38  report must also provide recommendations for modification or
   39  continued implementation of the pilot program.
   40         (5) The pilot program shall operate to the extent of
   41  available funding within the center’s existing resources.
   42         (6) This section expires June 30, 2017.
   43         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.
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   45  And the title is amended as follows:
   46         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   47  and insert:
   48                        A bill to be entitled                      
   49         An act relating to missing persons with special needs;
   50         creating s. 937.041, F.S.; establishing a pilot
   51         program in specified counties for the purpose of
   52         providing personal assistive technology devices to
   53         persons with special needs to aid in certain search
   54         and rescue efforts; providing for administration of
   55         the pilot program; requiring submittal of certain
   56         reports to the Governor and the Legislature by
   57         specified dates; providing for expiration of the pilot
   58         program; providing an effective date.