Senate Bill 1660e2

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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Department of Children

  3         and Family Services; requiring the department

  4         to contract with a private nonprofit

  5         corporation to implement the Healthy Families

  6         Florida program for child abuse prevention

  7         services; providing an appropriation; providing

  8         an effective date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  The Department of Children and Family

13  Services shall contract with a private nonprofit corporation

14  to implement the Healthy Families Florida program.  The

15  private nonprofit corporation shall be incorporated for the

16  purpose of identifying, funding, supporting, and evaluating

17  programs and community initiatives to improve the development

18  and life outcomes of children and to preserve and strengthen

19  families with a primary emphasis on prevention.  The private

20  nonprofit corporation shall implement the program.  The

21  program shall work in partnership with existing

22  community-based home visitation and family support resources

23  to provide assistance to families in an effort to prevent

24  child abuse.  The program shall be voluntary for participants

25  and shall require the informed consent of the participants at

26  the initial contact.  The Kempe Family Stress Checklist shall

27  not be used.

28         Section 2.  There is hereby appropriated to the

29  Department of Children and Family Services the sum of $10

30  million from tobacco settlement receipts residing in the

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

  2  act.

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

  4  year in which enacted.

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