Florida Senate - 2021                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1132
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/20/2021           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Bean) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 36 - 78
    4  and insert:
    5         1. The personal care attendant program must consist of a
    6  minimum of 16 hours of education and must include all of the
    7  topics and lessons specified in the program curriculum.
    8         2. The program curriculum must include, but need not be
    9  limited to, training in all of the following content areas:
   10         a. Residents’ rights.
   11         b. Confidentiality of residents’ personal information and
   12  medical records.
   13         c. Control of contagious and infectious diseases.
   14         d. Emergency response measures.
   15         e. Assistance with activities of daily living.
   16         f. Measuring vital signs.
   17         g. Skin care and pressure sores prevention.
   18         h. Portable oxygen use and safety.
   19         i. Nutrition and hydration.
   20         j. Dementia care.
   21         3. A personal care attendant must complete the 16 hours of
   22  required education before having any direct contact with a
   23  resident.
   24         4. A personal care attendant may not perform any task that
   25  requires clinical assessment, interpretation, or judgment.
   26         5. An individual employed as a personal care attendant
   27  under s. 400.211(2)(d) must work exclusively for one nursing
   28  facility before becoming a certified nursing assistant.
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   30  The agency shall adopt rules necessary to implement this
   31  paragraph. If the state of emergency declared by the Governor
   32  pursuant to Executive Order No. 20-52 is terminated before the
   33  agency adopts rules to implement this paragraph, the agency
   34  shall authorize the continuation of the personal care attendant
   35  program until the agency adopts such rules.
   36         Section 2. Subsection (2) of section 400.211, Florida
   37  Statutes, is amended to read:
   38         400.211 Persons employed as nursing assistants;
   39  certification requirement.—
   40         (2) The following categories of persons who are not
   41  certified as nursing assistants under part II of chapter 464 may
   42  be employed by a nursing facility for a single consecutive
   43  period of 4 months:
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   46  And the title is amended as follows:
   47         Delete lines 10 - 16
   48  and insert:
   49         practice; requiring the agency to adopt rules;
   50         requiring the agency to authorize the continuation of
   51         certain personal care attendant programs under certain
   52         circumstances; amending s. 400.211, F.S.; authorizing
   53         certain