HOUSE AMENDMENT

    hbd-06                Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1660, 1st Eng.

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Lynn offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14  Remove from the bill:  Everything after the enacting clause

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16  and insert in lieu thereof:

17         Section 1.  The Department of Children and Family

18  Services shall contract with a private nonprofit corporation

19  to implement the Healthy Families Florida program. The private

20  nonprofit corporation shall be incorporated for the purpose of

21  identifying, funding, supporting, and evaluating programs and

22  community initiatives to improve the development and life

23  outcomes of children and to preserve and strengthen families

24  with a primary emphasis on prevention. The private nonprofit

25  corporation shall implement the program. The program shall

26  work in partnership with existing community-based home

27  visitation and family support resources to provide assistance

28  to families in an effort to prevent child abuse. The program

29  shall be voluntary for participants and shall require the

30  informed consent of the participants at the initial contact.

31  The Kempe Family Stress Checklist shall not be used.

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

    hbd-06                Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1660, 1st Eng.

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)





 1         Section 2.  There is hereby appropriated to the

 2  Department of Children and Family Services the sum of $5

 3  million from tobacco settlement receipts residing in the

 4  department's Grants and Donations Trust Fund to implement this

 5  act.

 6         Section 3.  This act shall take effect on July 1 of the

 7  year in which enacted.

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11  And the title is amended as follows:

12  remove from the title of the bill:  the entire title

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14  and insert in lieu thereof:

15                      A bill to be entitled

16         An act relating to the Department of Children

17         and Family Services; requiring the department

18         to contract with a private nonprofit

19         corporation to implement the Healthy Families

20         Florida program for child abuse prevention

21         services; providing an appropriation; providing

22         an effective date.

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