Senate Bill sb1748c3

    Florida Senate - 2004             CS for CS for CS for SB 1748

    By the Committees on Appropriations; Judiciary; Health, Aging,
    and Long-Term Care; and Senators Jones and Lynn




    309-2516-04

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to multiservice senior centers;

  3         amending s. 430.203, F.S.; amending a

  4         definition; amending s. 403.206, F.S.;

  5         encouraging each multiservice senior center to

  6         have a functioning automated external

  7         defibrillator; requiring training, maintenance,

  8         and location registration; providing immunity

  9         from liability under the Good Samaritan Act and

10         the Cardiac Arrest Survival Act; authorizing

11         the Department of Elderly Affairs to adopt

12         rules; requiring the department to arrange for

13         purchase of such defibrillators; requiring

14         certain entities to reimburse the department

15         for purchased defibrillators under certain

16         circumstances; providing criteria for

17         distribution of such defibrillators; providing

18         an appropriation; providing an effective date.

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

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22         Section 1.  Subsection (10) of section 430.203, Florida

23  Statutes, is amended to read:

24         430.203  Community care for the elderly;

25  definitions.--As used in ss. 430.201-430.207, the term:

26         (10)  "Multiservice senior center" means a community

27  facility for the organization and provision of a broad

28  spectrum of that serves as the focal point for housing and

29  delivering services, which shall include provision of health,

30  including mental health, social, nutritional, and education

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 1  services, and the provision of facilities for recreational

 2  activities for to persons 60 years of age or older.

 3         Section 2.  Subsection (3) is added to section 430.206,

 4  Florida Statutes, to read:

 5         430.206  Multiservice senior center.--

 6         (3)(a)  Each multiservice senior center is encouraged

 7  to have on the premises at all times a functioning automated

 8  external defibrillator.

 9         (b)  Multiservice senior centers that provide automated

10  external defibrillators shall ensure that personnel are

11  properly trained in accordance with s. 401.2915.

12         (c)  The location of each automated external

13  defibrillator shall be registered with a local emergency

14  medical services medical director.

15         (d)  The use of automated external defibrillators by

16  employees and volunteers shall be covered under the provisions

17  of ss. 768.13 and 768.1325.

18         (e)  The department may adopt rules to implement the

19  provisions of this section.

20         Section 3.  The sum of $240,000 is appropriated from

21  the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Elderly Affairs

22  for the purpose of implementing this act during the 2004-2005

23  fiscal year. The department shall arrange for the purchase of

24  as many automated external defibrillators as may be purchased

25  with available funds. Senior centers shall reimburse the

26  department for 50 percent of the cost of the automated

27  external defibrillator provided to their facility.

28  Multiservice senior centers located in rural communities, as

29  defined in section 288.0656(2)(b), Florida Statutes, shall not

30  be required to reimburse the department for the costs of such

31  equipment. The department shall authorize issuance of the

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 1  equipment to senior centers in the order in which they request

 2  one and shall provide authorization for only one to each

 3  multiservice center pursuant to this section.

 4         Section 4.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

 5  law.

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 7          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
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10  Reduces the appropriation from $270,000 to $240,000 from the
    General Revenue Fund to the Department of Elder Affairs.
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