Senate Bill 0342

    Florida Senate - 2000                                   SB 342

    By Senator Forman





    32-318-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to traumatic brain injury;

  3         creating s. 402.09, F.S.; requiring the

  4         Department of Children and Family Services to

  5         provide community-based services, in certain

  6         circumstances, to individuals who have

  7         sustained traumatic brain injury; providing for

  8         rules; providing an effective date.

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

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12         Section 1.  Section 402.09, Florida Statutes, is

13  created to read:

14         402.09  Traumatic brain injury.--

15         (1)  The Department of Children and Family Services

16  shall, contingent upon specific appropriations, establish a

17  program of long-term community-based supports and services for

18  individuals who have sustained traumatic brain injuries and

19  whose needs cannot be met through other programs related to

20  brain injury which are located within the Department of

21  Health, the Department of Labor and Employment Security, or

22  the Department of Children and Family Services, or whose needs

23  cannot be met through any other programs for which they may be

24  eligible. The determination-of-eligibility process for this

25  program must include a process for ensuring that the

26  individual is ineligible for other programs or has needs that

27  cannot be met through other programs of the department or

28  other agencies for which he or she is eligible. This program

29  is to be the program of last resort for individuals who have

30  sustained traumatic brain injuries. Supports and services may

31  be purchased by department staff. This program is intended to

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    Florida Senate - 2000                                   SB 342
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  1  prevent inappropriate residential and institutional placements

  2  and must be designed to enhance or maximize the individual's

  3  independence.

  4         (2)  The Department of Children and Family Services

  5  shall adopt rules for implementing and administering the

  6  program and shall establish the eligibility criteria for

  7  individuals who apply for and receive services from the

  8  program.

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

10  law.

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14    Requires the Department of Children and Family Services
      to provide community-based services, in certain
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      traumatic brain injury.
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