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Florida Senate - 1998 SB 568
By Senator Dudley
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to alcohol and substance abuse
3 treatment programs; amending s. 394.76, F.S.;
4 clarifying provisions that specify the ratio of
5 local matching funds required to support
6 certain state-funded community alcohol and
7 substance abuse treatment programs if the
8 required level of local funding is not provided
9 in the General Appropriations Act or in the
10 bill implementing the General Appropriations
11 Act; providing an effective date.
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13 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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15 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (3) and
16 subsections (4), (8), (9), (10), and (11) of section 394.76,
17 Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
18 394.76 Financing of district programs and
19 services.--If the local match funding level is not provided in
20 the General Appropriations Act or the substantive bill
21 implementing the General Appropriations Act, such funding
22 level shall be provided as follows:
23 (3) The state share of financial participation shall
24 be determined by the following formula:
25 (b) Residential and case management services which are
26 funded as part of a deinstitutionalization project shall not
27 require local matching funds and shall not be used as local
28 matching funds. The state and federal financial participation
29 portions of Medicaid earnings pursuant to Title XIX of the
30 Social Security Act, except for the amount of general revenue
31 equal to the amount appropriated in 1985-1986 plus all other
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1 general revenue that is shifted from any other alcohol,
2 substance drug abuse, and mental health appropriation category
3 after fiscal year 1986-1987, shall not require local matching
4 funds and shall not be used as local matching funds. Local
5 matching funds are not required for general revenue
6 transferred by the department into alcohol, substance drug
7 abuse, and mental health appropriations categories during a
8 fiscal year to match federal funds earned from Medicaid
9 services provided for mental health clients in excess of the
10 amounts initially appropriated. Funds for children's services
11 which were provided through the Children, Youth, and Families
12 Services budget which did not require local match prior to
13 being transferred to the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental
14 Health Services budget shall be exempt from local matching
15 requirements. All other contracted community alcohol,
16 substance abuse, and mental health services and programs,
17 except as identified in s. 394.457(3), shall require local
18 participation on a 75-to-25 state-to-local ratio.
19 (4) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (3),
20 the department may is authorized to develop and demonstrate
21 alternative financing systems for alcohol, substance drug
22 abuse, and mental health services. Proposals for
23 demonstration projects conducted pursuant to this subsection
24 shall be reviewed by the substantive and appropriations
25 committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives
26 prior to implementation of the projects.
27 (8) Expenditures for capital improvements relating to
28 construction of, addition to, purchase of, or renovation of a
29 community alcohol, substance drug abuse, or mental health
30 facility may be made by the state, provided such expenditures
31 or capital improvements are part and parcel of an approved
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1 district plan. Nothing shall prohibit the use of such
2 expenditures for the construction of, addition to, renovation
3 of, or purchase of facilities owned by a county, city, or
4 other governmental agency of the state or a nonprofit entity.
5 Such expenditures are subject to the provisions of subsection
6 (6).
7 (9)(a) State funds for community alcohol and substance
8 abuse treatment programs and mental health services shall be
9 matched by local matching funds as provided in paragraph
10 (3)(b). The governing bodies within a district or subdistrict
11 shall be required to participate in the funding of alcohol and
12 substance abuse treatment programs and mental health services
13 under the jurisdiction of such governing bodies. The amount of
14 the participation shall be at least that amount which, when
15 added to other available local matching funds, is necessary to
16 match state funds.
17 (b) The provisions of paragraph (a) to the contrary
18 notwithstanding, no additional matching funds may be required
19 solely due to the addition in the General Appropriations Act
20 of Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Block Grant Funds
21 for local community mental health centers and alcohol and
22 substance abuse treatment project grants.
23 (10) A local governing body is authorized to
24 appropriate moneys, in lump sum or otherwise, from its public
25 funds for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this
26 part. In addition to the payment of claims upon submission of
27 proper vouchers, such moneys may also, at the option of the
28 governing body, be disbursed in the form of a lump-sum or
29 advance payment for services for expenditure, in turn, by the
30 recipient of the disbursement without prior audit by the
31 auditor of the governing body. Such funds shall be expended
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1 only for alcohol, substance drug abuse, or mental health
2 purposes as provided in the approved district plan. Each
3 governing body appropriating and disbursing moneys pursuant to
4 this subsection shall require the expenditure of such moneys
5 by the recipient of the disbursement to be audited annually
6 either in conjunction with an audit of other expenditures or
7 by a separate audit. Such annual audits shall be furnished to
8 the governing bodies of each participating county and
9 municipality for their examination.
10 (11) No additional local matching funds shall be
11 required solely due to the addition in the General
12 Appropriations Act of alcohol, substance drug abuse, and
13 mental health block grant funds for local community mental
14 health centers, substance drug abuse programs, and alcohol
15 project grants.
16 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 1998.
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19 SENATE SUMMARY
20 Clarifies requirements for local matching funds for
substance abuse treatment programs when the required
21 level of local funding is not specified in the General
Appropriations Act.
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