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HOUSE AMENDMENT
711-138AX-08 Bill No. CS for SB 364, 1st Eng.
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11 Representative(s) Ryan offered the following:
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18 Section 1. Subsections (8), (42), and (50) of section
19 393.063, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
20 393.063 Definitions.--For the purposes of this
21 chapter:
22 (8) "Comprehensive transitional education program"
23 means a group of jointly operating centers or units, the
24 collective purpose of which is to provide a sequential series
25 of educational care, training, treatment, habilitation, and
26 rehabilitation services to persons who have developmental
27 disabilities, as defined in subsection (12), and who have
28 severe or moderate maladaptive behaviors. However, nothing in
29 this subsection shall require comprehensive transitional
30 education programs to provide services only to persons with
31 developmental disabilities, as defined in subsection (12).
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1 All such services shall be temporary in nature and delivered
2 in a structured residential setting with the primary goal of
3 incorporating the normalization principle to establish
4 permanent residence for persons with maladaptive behaviors in
5 facilities not associated with the comprehensive transitional
6 education program. The staff shall include psychologists and
7 teachers, and such staff personnel shall be available to
8 provide services in each component center or unit of the
9 program. The psychologists shall be individuals who are
10 licensed in this state and certified as behavior analysts in
11 this state, or individuals who meet the professional
12 requirements established by the department for district
13 behavior analysts and are certified as behavior analysts in
14 this state.
15 (a) Comprehensive transitional education programs
16 shall include a minimum of two component centers or units, as
17 defined in this paragraph, one of which shall be either an
18 intensive treatment and educational center or a transitional
19 training and educational center, which provide services to
20 persons with maladaptive behaviors in the following sequential
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22 1. Intensive treatment and educational center. This
23 component is a self-contained residential unit providing
24 intensive psychological and educational programming for
25 persons with severe maladaptive behaviors, whose behaviors
26 preclude placement in a less restrictive environment due to
27 the threat of danger or injury to themselves or others.
28 2. Transitional training and educational center. This
29 component is a residential unit for persons with moderate
30 maladaptive behaviors, providing concentrated psychological
31 and educational programming emphasizing a transition toward a
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1 less restrictive environment.
2 3. Community transition residence. This component is
3 a residential center providing educational programs and such
4 support services, training, and care as are needed to assist
5 persons with maladaptive behaviors to avoid regression to more
6 restrictive environments while preparing them for more
7 independent living. Continuous-shift staff shall be required
8 for this component.
9 4. Alternative living center. This component is a
10 residential unit providing an educational and family living
11 environment for persons with maladaptive behaviors, in a
12 moderately unrestricted setting. Residential staff shall be
13 required for this component.
14 5. Independent living education center. This
15 component is a facility providing a family living environment
16 for persons with maladaptive behaviors, in a largely
17 unrestricted setting which includes education and monitoring
18 appropriate to support the development of independent living
19 skills by the students.
20 (b) Centers or units that are components of a
21 comprehensive transitional education program are subject to
22 the license issued to the comprehensive transitional education
23 program and may be located on either single or multiple sites.
24 (c) Comprehensive transitional education programs
25 shall develop individual education plans for each person with
26 maladaptive behaviors who receives services therein. Such
27 individual education plans shall be developed in accordance
28 with the criteria included in Pub. L. No. 94-142, 20 U.S.C.
29 ss. 401 et seq., and 34 C.F.R. part 300.
30 (d) In no instance shall the total number of persons
31 with maladaptive behaviors being provided services in a
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1 comprehensive transitional education program exceed 120.
2 (e) This subsection shall authorize licensure for
3 comprehensive transitional education programs which by July 1,
4 1989:
5 1. Are in actual operation; or
6 2. Own a fee simple interest in real property for
7 which a county or city government has approved zoning allowing
8 for the placement of the facilities described in this
9 subsection, and have registered an intent with the department
10 to operate a comprehensive transitional education program.
11 However, nothing shall prohibit the assignment by such a
12 registrant to another entity at a different site within the
13 state, so long as there is compliance with all criteria of the
14 comprehensive transitional education program.
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18 And the title is amended as follows:
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22 revising a grandfathering provision relating to
23 the comprehensive transitional education
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