Florida Senate - 2021 SB 1840
By Senator Broxson
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to memory disorder clinics; amending
3 s. 430.502, F.S.; removing the establishment of the
4 memory disorder clinic at the West Florida Regional
5 Medical Center; establishing the memory disorder
6 clinic at the Medical Center Clinic in Pensacola;
7 reenacting s. 1004.445, F.S., relating to the Johnnie
8 B. Byrd, Sr., Alzheimer’s Center and Research
9 Institute, to incorporate the amendment made to s.
10 430.502, F.S., in a reference thereto; providing an
11 effective date.
12
13 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
14
15 Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 430.502, Florida
16 Statutes, is amended to read:
17 430.502 Alzheimer’s disease; memory disorder clinics and
18 day care and respite care programs.—
19 (1) There is established:
20 (a) A memory disorder clinic at each of the three medical
21 schools in this state;
22 (b) A memory disorder clinic at a major private nonprofit
23 research-oriented teaching hospital, and may fund a memory
24 disorder clinic at any of the other affiliated teaching
25 hospitals;
26 (c) A memory disorder clinic at the Mayo Clinic in
27 Jacksonville;
28 (d) A memory disorder clinic at the Medical Center Clinic
29 in Pensacola the West Florida Regional Medical Center;
30 (e) A memory disorder clinic operated by Health First in
31 Brevard County;
32 (f) A memory disorder clinic at the Orlando Regional
33 Healthcare System, Inc.;
34 (g) A memory disorder center located in a public hospital
35 that is operated by an independent special hospital taxing
36 district that governs multiple hospitals and is located in a
37 county with a population greater than 800,000 persons;
38 (h) A memory disorder clinic at St. Mary’s Medical Center
39 in Palm Beach County;
40 (i) A memory disorder clinic at Tallahassee Memorial
41 Healthcare;
42 (j) A memory disorder clinic at Lee Memorial Hospital
43 created by chapter 63-1552, Laws of Florida, as amended;
44 (k) A memory disorder clinic at Sarasota Memorial Hospital
45 in Sarasota County;
46 (l) A memory disorder clinic at Morton Plant Hospital,
47 Clearwater, in Pinellas County;
48 (m) A memory disorder clinic at Florida Atlantic
49 University, Boca Raton, in Palm Beach County;
50 (n) A memory disorder clinic at AdventHealth in Orange
51 County; and
52 (o) A memory disorder clinic at Miami Jewish Health System
53 in Miami-Dade County,
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55 for the purpose of conducting research and training in a
56 diagnostic and therapeutic setting for persons suffering from
57 Alzheimer’s disease and related memory disorders. However,
58 memory disorder clinics shall not receive decreased funding due
59 solely to subsequent additions of memory disorder clinics in
60 this subsection.
61 Section 2. For the purpose of incorporating the amendment
62 made by this act to section 430.502, Florida Statutes, in a
63 reference thereto, subsection (3) of section 1004.445, Florida
64 Statutes, is reenacted to read:
65 1004.445 Johnnie B. Byrd, Sr., Alzheimer’s Center and
66 Research Institute.—
67 (3) BUDGET.—The institute’s budget shall include the moneys
68 appropriated in the General Appropriations Act, donated, or
69 otherwise provided to the institute from private, local, state,
70 and federal sources, as well as technical and professional
71 income generated or derived from practice activities at the
72 institute. Any appropriation to the institute shall be expended
73 for the purposes specified in this section, including conducting
74 and supporting research and related clinical services, awarding
75 institutional grants and investigator-initiated research grants
76 to other persons within the state through a peer-reviewed
77 competitive process, developing and operating integrated data
78 projects, providing assistance to the memory disorder clinics
79 established in s. 430.502, and providing for the operation of
80 the institute.
81 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.