HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                  Bill No. HB 1759

    Amendment No. 05 (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Merchant offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 2, between lines 26 and 27 of the bill

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17         Section 1.  Subsections (27), (45), and (48) of section

18  984.03, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

19         984.03  Definitions.--When used in this chapter, the

20  term:

21         (27)  "Family in need of services" means a family that

22  has a child who is running away; who is persistently

23  disobeying reasonable and lawful demands of the parent or

24  legal custodian and is beyond the control of the parent or

25  legal custodian; or who is habitually truant from school or

26  engaging in other serious behaviors that place the child at

27  risk of future abuse, neglect, or abandonment or at risk of

28  entering the juvenile justice system for whom there is no

29  pending investigation into an allegation of abuse, neglect, or

30  abandonment or no current supervision by the Department of

31  Juvenile Justice or the Department of Children and Family

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                  Bill No. HB 1759

    Amendment No. 05 (for drafter's use only)





 1  Services for an adjudication of dependency or delinquency. The

 2  child must be also have been referred to a law enforcement

 3  agency, or the Department of Juvenile Justice, or an agency

 4  contracted to provide services to children in need of

 5  services. A family is not eligible to receive services if, at

 6  the time of the referral, there is an open investigation into

 7  an allegation of abuse, neglect, or abandonment or if the

 8  child is currently under supervision by the Department of

 9  Juvenile Justice or the Department of Children and Family

10  Services due to an adjudication of dependency or delinquency.

11  for:

12         (a)  Running away from parents or legal custodians;

13         (b)  Persistently disobeying reasonable and lawful

14  demands of parents or legal custodians and being beyond their

15  control; or

16         (c)  Habitual truancy from school.

17         (45)  "Preventive services" means social services and

18  other supportive and rehabilitative services provided to the

19  parent of the child, the legal guardian of the child, or the

20  custodian of the child and to the child for the purpose of

21  averting the removal of the child from the home or disruption

22  of a family which will or could result in an adjudication that

23  orders the placement of a child into in foster care or into

24  the delinquency system or that will or could result in the

25  child living on the street.  Social services and other

26  supportive and rehabilitative services may include the

27  provision of assessment and screening services; individual,

28  group, or family counseling; specialized educational and

29  vocational services; temporary shelter for the child; outreach

30  services for children living on the street; independent living

31  services to assist adolescents in achieving a successful

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                  Bill No. HB 1759

    Amendment No. 05 (for drafter's use only)





 1  transition to adulthood; and other specialized services shall

 2  promote the child's need for a safe, continuous, stable,

 3  living environment and shall promote family autonomy and shall

 4  strengthen family life as the first priority whenever

 5  possible.

 6         (48)  "Reunification services" means social services

 7  and other supportive and rehabilitative services provided to

 8  the parent of the child, the legal guardian of the child, or

 9  the custodian of the child, whichever is applicable; the

10  child; and, where appropriate, the foster parents of the child

11  for the purpose of enabling a child who has been placed in

12  temporary shelter foster care to return to his or her family

13  at the earliest possible time.  Social services and other

14  supportive and rehabilitative services shall be consistent

15  with promote the child's need for a safe, continuous, and

16  stable, living environment and shall promote the strengthening

17  of family autonomy and strengthen family life as a first

18  priority whenever possible.

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20  (Renumber subsequent sections)

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24  And the title is amended as follows:

25         On page 1, line 3

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27  after the word "juveniles;" insert:

28         amending s. 984.03, F.S.; revising definitions

29         for purposes of ch. 984, F.S., relating to

30         children and families in need of services;

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