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11 The Committee on Elder & Long-Term Care offered the following:
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13 Amendment (with title amendment)
14 Remove from the bill: Everything after the enacting clause
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17 Section 1. Section 413.402, Florida Statutes, is
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19 413.402 Personal care attendant pilot program.--The
20 Florida Association of Centers for Independent Living shall
21 develop a pilot program to provide personal care attendants to
22 persons who are eligible pursuant to subsection (1). The
23 association shall develop memorandums of understanding with
24 the Department of Revenue, the Brain and Spinal Cord Injury
25 Program in the Department of Health, the Florida Medicaid
26 program in the Agency for Health Care Administration, the
27 Florida Endowment Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation,
28 and the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the
29 Department of Labor and Employment Security.
30 (1) Persons eligible to participate in the pilot
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1 (a) Be at least 18 years of age and not older than 55
2 years of age, and must be significantly disabled due to a
3 traumatic spinal cord injury;
4 (b) Have been determined eligible for training
5 services from the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the
6 Department of Labor and Employment Security; and
7 (c) Either:
8 1. Live in a nursing home; or
9 2. Have moved out of a nursing home within the
10 preceding 180 days due to participation in a Medicaid home and
11 community-based waiver program targeted to persons with brain
12 or spinal cord injuries.
13 (2) The association shall develop a training program
14 for training persons selected to participate in the pilot
15 program that will prepare each person to manage his or her own
16 personal care attendant.
17 (3) The association, in cooperation with the Florida
18 Endowment Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation, shall
19 develop a program to recruit, screen, and select candidates to
20 be trained as personal care attendants.
21 (4) The association, in cooperation with the Florida
22 Endowment Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation, shall
23 develop a training program for personal care attendants.
24 (5) The association, in cooperation with the Florida
25 Endowment Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation, shall
26 establish procedures for selecting persons eligible under
27 subsection (1) to participate in the pilot program.
28 (6) The association, in cooperation with the Division
29 of Vocational Rehabilitation of the Department of Labor and
30 Employment Security, shall assess the selected participants
31 and make recommendations for their placement into appropriate
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1 work-related training programs.
2 (7) The association, in cooperation with the
3 Department of Revenue, the Brain and Spinal Cord Injury
4 Program in the Department of Health, the Florida Medicaid
5 program in the Agency for Health Care Administration, a
6 representative from the state attorneys' office in each of the
7 counties participating in the pilot program, the Florida
8 Endowment Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation, and the
9 Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the Department of
10 Labor and Employment Security, shall develop a plan for
11 implementation of the pilot program.
12 (8) No later than March 1, 2002, the association shall
13 present to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of
14 the House of Representatives the implementation plan for the
15 pilot program, a timeline for implementation, estimates of the
16 number of participants to be served, and cost projections for
17 each component of the pilot program. The pilot program shall
18 be implemented beginning July 1, 2002, unless there is
19 specific legislative action to the contrary.
20 Section 2. The Department of Revenue, in coordination
21 with the the Florida Association of Centers for Independent
22 Living and the state attorneys' offices in Duval, Miami-Dade,
23 Broward, Orange, and Hillsborough Counties, shall develop and
24 implement a tax collection enforcement diversion program which
25 shall collect revenue due from persons who have not remitted
26 their collected sales tax. The criteria for referral to the
27 tax collection enforcement diversion program shall be
28 determined cooperatively between the state attorneys' offices
29 in those counties and the Department of Revenue.
30 (1) Twenty-five percent of the revenues collected from
31 the tax collection enforcement diversion program shall be
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1 deposited into the operating account of the Florida Endowment
2 Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation, to be used to
3 implement the personal care attendant pilot program.
4 (2) The pilot program shall operate only from funds
5 deposited into the operating account of the Florida Endowment
6 Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation.
7 (3) The Revenue Estimating Conference shall annually
8 project the amount of funds expected to be generated from the
9 tax collection enforcement diversion program.
10 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.
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14 And the title is amended as follows:
15 remove from the title of the bill: the entire title
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17 and insert in lieu thereof:
18 A bill to be entitled
19 An act relating to persons with disabilities;
20 creating s. 413.402, F.S.; directing the
21 Florida Association of Centers for Independent
22 Living to develop a personal care attendant
23 pilot program to serve persons with spinal cord
24 injuries; providing for memorandums of
25 understanding with specified entities;
26 providing eligibility for pilot program
27 participation; providing for selection and
28 training of participants and personal care
29 attendants; providing for assessment of
30 participants for work-related training
31 programs; providing for development of a plan
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1 for program implementation; requiring a report
2 to the Legislature; providing for
3 implementation on a specified date; directing
4 the Department of Revenue to develop and
5 implement a tax collection enforcement
6 diversion program in specified counties;
7 providing for coordination with the Florida
8 Association of Centers for Independent Living
9 and the state attorneys' offices; providing for
10 deposit and use of funds collected; directing
11 the Revenue Estimating Conference to make
12 certain annual projections; providing an
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