Senate Bill 1062

    Florida Senate - 2000                                  SB 1062

    By Senators Saunders and King





    25-383B-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Florida Healthy Kids

  3         program; amending s. 409.8134, F.S.; providing

  4         enrollment and funding guidelines for the

  5         Florida Healthy Kids program; providing an

  6         effective date.

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

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10         Section 1.  Subsections (1) and (2) of section

11  409.8134, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

12         409.8134  Program enrollment and expenditure

13  ceilings.--

14         (1)  Except for the Medicaid program, a ceiling shall

15  be placed on annual federal and state expenditures and on

16  enrollment in the Florida Kidcare program as provided each

17  year in the General Appropriations Act. The agency, in

18  consultation with the Department of Health, may propose to

19  increase the enrollment ceiling in accordance with chapter

20  216. When such state funds have been exhausted, the Florida

21  Healthy Kids Corporation may accept funds in accordance with

22  Title XXI guidelines from local governments or entities in

23  order to enroll additional children so long as the local funds

24  meet the state's required matching share and federal funds are

25  available for matching purposes. It is the intent of the

26  Legislature to eliminate the local matching fund requirements

27  of the Florida Healthy Kids program, subject to an

28  appropriations act designed to compensate for the loss of

29  local matching funds. When funds are collected for this

30  purpose, the annual federal and state expenditure ceiling does

31  not apply towards this enrollment.

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    Florida Senate - 2000                                  SB 1062
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  1         (2)  Except for the Medicaid program, whenever the

  2  Social Services Estimating Conference determines that there is

  3  presently, or will be by the end of the current fiscal year,

  4  insufficient funds to finance the current or projected

  5  enrollment in the Florida Kidcare program, all additional

  6  enrollment must cease and additional enrollment may not resume

  7  until sufficient funds are available to finance such

  8  enrollment. The Florida Healthy Kids Corporation may enroll

  9  additional Title-XXI-eligible children if funding for this

10  additional enrollment is derived solely from other funding

11  sources meeting Title XXI guidelines and if federal matching

12  funds are available.

13         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

14  law.

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17                          SENATE SUMMARY

18    Revises enrollment and funding guidelines for the Florida
      Healthy Kids program.
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