Senate Bill sb0700

    Florida Senate - 2003                                   SB 700

    By Senator Lynn





    7-783A-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Department of Children

  3         and Family Services; expressing the legislative

  4         intent to transfer the Mental Health Program

  5         within the department to the Department of

  6         Health, to transfer programs for children and

  7         families in need of services from the

  8         Department of Juvenile Justice to the

  9         department, and to direct the evaluation of the

10         transfer of certain other programs; providing

11         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.  (1)  The Legislature intends to transfer

16  the Mental Health Program within the Department of Children

17  and Family Services to the Department of Health, and to

18  transfer all children-in-need-of-services programs and

19  families-in-need-of-services programs within the Department of

20  Juvenile Justice to the Department of Children and Family

21  Services, effective January 1, 2004.

22         (2)  The Legislature intends to direct the Office of

23  Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to

24  evaluate the transfer of the Substance Abuse Program and the

25  Developmental Disabilities Program to the Department of

26  Health; to assess the effect of such transfer on each program,

27  the Department of Health, and the remaining programs within

28  the Department of Children and Family Services; and to report

29  its findings to the Legislature by December 31, 2003.

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

31  law.

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                   SB 700
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 3    Expresses the legislative intent to transfer the Mental
      Health Program within the Department of Children and
 4    Family Services to the Department of Health, to transfer
      programs for children and families in need of services
 5    from the Department of Juvenile Justice to the
      department, and to direct the evaluation of the transfer
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