SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for CS for SB's 834, 1140 & 1612

    Amendment No.    

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11  Senator Meek moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 54, line 17, through page 55, line 11, delete

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18         400.063  Resident Protection Trust Fund.--

19         (1)  A Resident Protection Trust Fund shall be

20  established for the purpose of collecting and disbursing funds

21  generated from the license fees and administrative fines as

22  provided for in ss. 393.0673(2), 400.062(3)(b), 400.111(1),

23  400.121(2), and 400.23(9).  Such funds shall be solely for the

24  sole purpose of paying for the appropriate alternate

25  placement, care, and treatment of residents who are removed

26  from a facility licensed under this part or a facility

27  specified in s. 393.0678(1) in which the agency determines

28  that existing conditions or practices constitute an immediate

29  danger to the health, safety, or security of the residents or

30  for the operation of a facility under receivership as provided

31  in s. 400.126.  If the agency determines that it is in the

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for CS for SB's 834, 1140 & 1612

    Amendment No.    





 1  best interest of the health, safety, or security of the

 2  residents to provide for an orderly removal of the residents

 3  from the facility, the agency may utilize such funds to

 4  maintain and care for the residents in the facility pending

 5  removal and alternative placement.  The maintenance and care

 6  of the residents shall be under the direction and control of a

 7  receiver appointed pursuant to s. 393.0678(1) or s.

 8  400.126(1).  However, funds may be expended in an emergency

 9  upon a filing of a petition for a receiver, upon the

10  declaration of a state of local emergency pursuant to s.

11  252.38(3)(a)5., or upon a duly authorized local order of

12  evacuation of a facility by emergency personnel to protect the

13  health and safety of the residents.

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17  And the title is amended as follows:

18         On page 4, line 16, after the semicolon

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21         providing for use of moneys in the Resident

22         Protection Trust Fund to operate a facility

23         under receivership;

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