SENATE AMENDMENT
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11 Senator Lynn moved the following amendment:
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17 Section 12. A new paragraph (e) is added to subsection
18 (15) of section 400.141, Florida Statutes, to read:
19 400.141 Administration and management of nursing home
20 facilities.--Every licensed facility shall comply with all
21 applicable standards and rules of the agency and shall:
22 (15) Submit semiannually to the agency, or more
23 frequently if requested by the agency, information regarding
24 facility staff-to-resident ratios, staff turnover, and staff
25 stability, including information regarding certified nursing
26 assistants, licensed nurses, the director of nursing, and the
27 facility administrator. For purposes of this reporting:
28 (e) A nursing facility may be cited for failure to
29 comply with the standards for licensed nurses and certified
30 nursing assistants in s. 400.23(3)(a) only if it has failed to
31 meet those standards on 2 consecutive days or if it has failed
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1 to meet at least 95 percent of those standards on any one day.
2 Nothing in this section shall limit the agency's ability to
3 impose a deficiency or take other actions if a facility does
4 not have enough staff to meet the residents' needs.
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10 And the title is amended as follows:
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15 An act relating to the vulnerable persons;
16 amending s. 393.0661, F.S.; requiring pilot
17 programs to test the redesign of developmental
18 disabilities services; providing for
19 requirements for the pilot programs; requiring
20 a report to the Legislature; deleting the
21 requirement that the redesigned system be fully
22 implemented by July 1, 2003; deleting the
23 requirements of the plan pertaining to direct
24 provider enrollment and assessment of all
25 clients; creating ss. 393.506 and 400.9685,
26 F.S.; providing for certain unlicensed staff to
27 assist persons with developmental disabilities
28 to administer certain prescription medications;
29 providing the conditions under which staff may
30 assist with medication; amending s. 402.310,
31 F.S.; authorizing the Department of Children
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1 and Family Services or a local licensing agency
2 to deny, suspend, or revoke the license of a
3 child care facility, a licensed family day care
4 home, or a large family child care home and to
5 deny, suspend, or revoke the registration of a
6 family day care home following a violation of
7 certain laws or rules; amending s. 402.313,
8 F.S.; repealing the authority of the Department
9 of Children and Family Services or a local
10 licensing agency to impose an administrative
11 fine on a family day care home; requiring the
12 department to establish minimum safety
13 standards for licensed family day care homes;
14 repealing s. 402.3131(1)(a), F.S., relating to
15 the authority of the Department of Children and
16 Family Services or a local licensing agency to
17 impose an administrative fine on a large family
18 childcare home; amending s. 402.40, F.S.;
19 replacing the terms "dependency program" and
20 "dependency program staff" with the terms
21 "child welfare services" and "person who
22 delivers child welfare services," respectively;
23 defining those terms; redefining terms used in
24 the section; requiring the Department of
25 Children and Family Services to establish the
26 core competencies for a training curriculum;
27 requiring collaboration with experts and
28 providers; requiring each person who delivers
29 child welfare services to master particular
30 components of the training curriculum;
31 directing the department to competitively bid
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1 the contracts for the training curriculum;
2 requiring the Department of Children and Family
3 Services to annually examine the advance
4 training needs for child welfare services;
5 requiring the department to develop minimum
6 standards for a certification process and
7 minimum standards for trainer qualifications;
8 deleting a requirement that the department
9 contract with Tallahassee Community College for
10 the operation of one or more training
11 academies; providing for the roles of the
12 training academies; directing the department to
13 competitively bid training academy contracts;
14 requiring the core competencies, standards for
15 a certification process, and standards for
16 trainer qualifications to be submitted to
17 legislative committees before entering into the
18 competitive bidding process; amending s.
19 409.1671, F.S.; deleting the requirement for a
20 plan; requiring the Governor's approval of the
21 department's methodology for transferring
22 funds; specifying that the term "related
23 services" includes adoption services; modifying
24 the schedule by which community-based care will
25 be implemented; requiring written certification
26 prior to transferring services; requiring an
27 evaluation and report to the Legislature;
28 deleting dates by which certain community-based
29 care activities must occur; amending s.
30 415.102, F.S.; redefining the terms "abuse,"
31 "neglect," and "vulnerable adult"; creating s.
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1 415.1046, F.S.; providing the Department of
2 Children and Family Services with the authority
3 to contract for provision of adult protective
4 investigative services; stipulating the
5 requirements for sheriffs' offices to be
6 eligible to contract for provision of adult
7 protective investigative services; providing
8 for the contracting and funding for adult
9 protective investigative services; requiring
10 sheriff's employees to complete certain
11 training; stipulating minimum requirements for
12 the sheriffs' offices' operation of adult
13 protective investigations; requiring a program
14 performance evaluation; providing for an
15 evaluation by the Office of Program Policy and
16 Government Accountability of child welfare
17 legal services; requiring a report; directing
18 the department to continue its current delivery
19 of child welfare legal services until directed
20 otherwise by the Legislature; amending s.
21 400.141, F.S.; providing conditions under which
22 a nursing facility may be sighted for failure
23 to comply with certain standards; providing an
24 effective date.
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