SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 208

    Amendment No.    

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11  Senator Brown-Waite moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

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17  and insert:  fingerprint card to the agency. The agency shall

18  establish a record of the request in the database provided for

19  in paragraph (c) and forward the request to the Department of

20  Law Enforcement, which is authorized to submit the

21  fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a

22  national criminal history records check. The results of the

23  national criminal history records check shall be returned to

24  the agency, which shall maintain the results in the database

25  provided for in paragraph (c). The agency shall notify the

26  administrator of the requesting nursing facility or the

27  administrator of any other facility licensed under chapter

28  393, chapter 394, chapter 395, chapter 397, or this chapter,

29  as requested by such facility, as to whether or not the

30  employee has qualified under level 1 or level 2 screening. An

31  employee or prospective employee who has qualified under level

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 1  2 screening and has maintained such continuous residency

 2  within the state shall not be required to complete a

 3  subsequent level 2 screening as a condition of employment at

 4  another facility.

 5         (c)  The agency shall establish and maintain a database

 6  of background screening information which shall include the

 7  results of both level 1 and level 2 screening and central

 8  abuse registry and tracking system checks. The Department of

 9  Law Enforcement shall timely provide to the agency,

10  electronically, the results of each statewide screening for

11  incorporation into the database. The Department of Children

12  and Family Services shall provide the agency with electronic

13  access to the central abuse registry and tracking system. The

14  agency shall search the registry to identify any confirmed

15  report and shall access such report for incorporation into the

16  database. The agency shall, upon request from any facility,

17  agency, or program required by or authorized by law to screen

18  its employees or applicants, notify the administrator of the

19  facility, agency, or program of the qualifying or

20  disqualifying status of the employee or applicant named in the

21  request.

22         (3)  The applicant is responsible for paying the fees

23  associated with obtaining the required screening.  Payment for

24  the screening and the abuse registry check shall be submitted

25  to the agency. The agency shall establish a schedule of fees

26  to cover the costs of level 1 and level 2 screening and the

27  abuse registry check. Facilities may reimburse employees for

28  these costs. The agency shall, as allowable, reimburse nursing

29  facilities for the cost of conducting background screening as

30  required by this section.  This reimbursement will not be

31  subject to any rate ceilings or payment targets in the

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 1  Medicaid Reimbursement plan.

 2         (4)  For purposes of this section, notwithstanding the

 3  provisions of s. 435.09 to the contrary, a nursing home

 4  facility administrator licensed under s. 468.1645 may

 5  acknowledge receipt of a qualifying or a disqualifying

 6  screening report to another nursing home administrator

 7  licensed under s. 468.1645 and must provide the date of the

 8  screening report.

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12  And the title is amended as follows:

13         On page 1, lines 14 through 19, delete those lines

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16         certain conditions; requiring the Agency for

17         Health Care Administration to establish and

18         maintain a database and provider certain

19         information; providing for screening fees;

20         authorizing nursing home facility

21         administrators to acknowledge receipt of

22         background screening reports; requiring the

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