Florida Senate - 2024                                    SB 1462
       
       
        
       By Senator Osgood
       
       
       
       
       
       32-01057A-24                                          20241462__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the Reduction In Black Female and
    3         Women’s Maternal Mortality Grant Program; creating s.
    4         381.998, F.S.; establishing the Reduction In Black
    5         Female and Women’s Maternal Mortality Grant Program
    6         within the Department of Health; providing the purpose
    7         of the program; authorizing certain nonprofit
    8         organizations to apply for a grant through the
    9         program; authorizing the department to provide grants
   10         to such organizations for specified purposes, subject
   11         to legislative appropriation; authorizing the
   12         department to adopt rules to administer the program;
   13         providing an appropriation for specified purposes;
   14         providing an effective date.
   15          
   16  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   18         Section 1. Section 381.998, Florida Statutes, is created to
   19  read:
   20         381.998 Reduction In Black Female and Women’s Maternal
   21  Mortality Grant Program.—
   22         (1) There is established the Reduction In Black Female and
   23  Women’s Maternal Mortality Grant Program within the Department
   24  of Health to provide grants to nonprofit organizations,
   25  including the National Medical Association, the National or
   26  Florida chapter of the Black Nurses Association, the National
   27  Black Midwives Alliance, the Florida State University College of
   28  Medicine, the University of Florida College of Medicine, the
   29  University of South Florida College of Medicine, the University
   30  of Central Florida College of Medicine, and the Florida
   31  Agricultural and Mechanical University School of Allied Health
   32  Sciences, to work toward reducing Black female and women’s
   33  maternal mortality.
   34         (2) To receive a grant under the program, the nonprofit
   35  organizations identified in subsection (1) shall apply to the
   36  department in a manner prescribed by department.
   37         (3) Subject to legislative appropriation, the department
   38  shall award grants to the nonprofit organizations identified in
   39  subsection (1) to:
   40         (a) Study, develop, create, and publish protocols and
   41  educational materials relating to Black female and women’s
   42  maternal mortality.
   43         (b) Conduct education and awareness workshops relating to
   44  reducing Black female and women’s maternal mortality. Such
   45  workshops must use information and materials provided by the
   46  nonprofit organizations identified in subsection (1).
   47         (4) The Department of Health may adopt rules to administer
   48  this section.
   49         Section 2. For the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the sum of $5
   50  million in nonrecurring funds is appropriated from the General
   51  Revenue Fund to the Department of Health to fund the Reduction
   52  In Black Female and Women’s Maternal Mortality Grant Program
   53  established by this act. Any unexpended balance of these funds
   54  as of June 30, 2025, must revert and is appropriated for the
   55  2025-2026 fiscal year to the Department of Health for the same
   56  purpose.
   57         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.