Senate Bill sb2254c2

    Florida Senate - 2002                    CS for CS for SB 2254

    By the Committees on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care;
    Children and Families; and Senator Brown-Waite




    317-2287-02

  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 the workgroup to

  9         prepare recommendations; requiring inclusion of

10         recommendations in the state plan; providing an

11         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; and

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 and from the Agency for Health Care Administration,

30  the Florida Health Care Association, the Florida Assisted

31  Living Affiliation, the Florida Association of Homes for the

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    Florida Senate - 2002                    CS for CS for SB 2254
    317-2287-02




  1  Aging, the Florida Council for Behavioral Healthcare, Inc.,

  2  the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, the Florida

  3  Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, Inc., the

  4  Florida Coalitions for the Homeless, the Florida Housing

  5  Coalition, Florida AIDS Action, the Florida Hospital

  6  Association, the Florida Long-Term Care Ombudsman, the Florida

  7  Statewide Advocacy Council, the Florida Sheriffs Association,

  8  the Florida Psychiatric Society, the Department of Elderly

  9  Affairs, the Florida Mental Health Counselors Association, and

10  the Florida Association of Counties. The workgroup shall be

11  staffed by the Department of Children and Family Services.

12  Each member of the workgroup shall serve at his or her own

13  expense. The workgroup shall prepare recommendations no later

14  than November 2002, and shall include recommendations in the

15  January 2003 update to the mental health and substance abuse

16  state master plan.

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

18  law.

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20          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
21                     CS for Senate Bill 2254

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23  The Committee Substitute for Committee Substitute for Senate
    Bill 2254 adds a representative from the Department of Elderly
24  Affairs and the Florida Mental Health Counselors Association
    to the workgroup.
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