Florida Senate - 2005 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1168
Barcode 703894
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11 Senator Constantine moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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16 insert: Thirty days after the release of the Governor's
17 Executive Budget Recommendations, the commission shall present
18 to the Legislative Budget Commission for approval the formula
19 for allocating the Medicaid nonemergency transportation funds
20 it anticipates receiving from the Agency for Health Care
21 Administration, as specified in the Governor's Executive
22 Budget Recommendations, for the upcoming fiscal year. The
23 formula must document the amount of the funding expected to be
24 allocated to each county. No change that would negatively
25 affect any county may be implemented by the commission unless
26 the General Appropriations Act approved by the Legislature
27 reduces the amount allocated to the commission. Any reduction
28 made to a county as a result of the Legislature's reducing the
29 funding available to the commission must be made in a fair and
30 equitable manner.
31 Section 2. Subsection (12) of section 427.013, Florida
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Florida Senate - 2005 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1168
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2 427.013 The Commission for the Transportation
3 Disadvantaged; purpose and responsibilities.--The purpose of
4 the commission is to accomplish the coordination of
5 transportation services provided to the transportation
6 disadvantaged. The goal of this coordination shall be to
7 assure the cost-effective provision of transportation by
8 qualified community transportation coordinators or
9 transportation operators for the transportation disadvantaged
10 without any bias or presumption in favor of multioperator
11 systems or not-for-profit transportation operators over single
12 operator systems or for-profit transportation operators. In
13 carrying out this purpose, the commission shall:
14 (12)(a) Have the authority to apply for and accept
15 funds, grants, gifts, and services from the Federal
16 Government, state government, local governments, or private
17 funding sources. Applications by the commission for local
18 government funds shall be coordinated through the appropriate
19 coordinating board. Funds acquired or accepted under this
20 subsection shall be administered by the commission and shall
21 be used to carry out the commission's responsibilities.
22 (b) Develop a Medicaid allocation methodology or
23 formula that equitably distributes the funds under the control
24 of the commission to compensate counties, community
25 transportation coordinators, or other entities providing
26 transportation disadvantaged services. The formula shall take
27 into account not only the actual costs of each trip but also
28 program efficiencies. The methodology or formula must ensure
29 that a trip credit process is incorporated into the formula to
30 ensure that cost-effective solutions are properly measured and
31 taken into account.
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6 And the title is amended as follows:
7 On page 1, line 17, after the semicolon,
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10 requiring the commission to present a formula
11 to the Legislative Budget Commission for
12 allocating the Medicaid nonemergency
13 transportation funds the commission anticipates
14 receiving from the Agency for Health Care
15 Administration; requiring the commission to
16 document the amount of the funding expected to
17 be allocated to each county; prohibiting any
18 reduction in allocation to a county unless the
19 General Appropriations Act reduces the amount
20 allocated to the commission; amending s.
21 427.013, F.S.; requiring the commission to
22 develop a Medicaid allocation methodology to
23 equitably distribute transportation funds under
24 the control of the commission to counties,
25 community transportation coordinators, or other
26 entities providing transportation disadvantaged
27 services; providing for the methodology to
28 develop the formula;
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