House Bill hb1659c1

    Florida House of Representatives - 2002             CS/HB 1659

        By the Council for Healthy Communities and Representatives
    Justice, Bilirakis, Garcia and Gottlieb





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to supportive housing;

  3         directing the Secretary of Children and Family

  4         Services to establish a workgroup to review

  5         issues associated with services and supports

  6         provided through state-funded supportive

  7         housing; providing for membership and staff of

  8         the workgroup; requiring recommendations;

  9         requiring inclusion of the recommendations in

10         the state substance abuse and mental health

11         master plan; providing an effective date.

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

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15         Section 1.  The Secretary of Children and Family

16  Services shall establish a workgroup for the purposes of

17  reviewing issues associated with services and supports

18  provided through state-funded supportive housing, and

19  developing legislative recommendations for state-funded

20  supportive housing living arrangements. The workgroup shall

21  address development of administrative rules regarding:

22         (1)  The definition of "supportive housing services."

23         (2)  Consumer health and safety.

24         (3)  The use of subsidies funded by the Department of

25  Children and Family Services.

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27  The Secretary of Children and Family Services shall ensure

28  that representatives participate in the workgroup from the

29  Department of Children and Family Services and from the Agency

30  for Health Care Administration, the Florida Health Care

31  Association, the Florida Assisted Living Affiliation, the

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2002             CS/HB 1659

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  1  Florida Association of Homes for the Aging, the Florida

  2  Council for Behavioral Healthcare, Inc., the National Alliance

  3  for the Mentally Ill, the Florida Advocacy Center for Persons

  4  with Disabilities, Inc., the Florida Coalitions for the

  5  Homeless, the Florida Housing Coalition, the Florida AIDS

  6  Action, the Florida Hospital Association, the Florida

  7  Long-Term Care Ombudsman, the Florida Statewide Advocacy

  8  Council, the Florida Sheriffs Association, the Florida

  9  Psychiatric Society, and the Florida Association of Counties.

10  The workgroup shall be staffed by the Department of Children

11  and Family Services. Each member of the workgroup shall serve

12  at his or her own expense. The workgroup shall prepare

13  recommendations no later than November 2002 and shall include

14  the recommendations in the January 2003 update to the state

15  mental health and substance abuse master plan.

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

17  law.

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