Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 220
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11 The Committee on Children and Families (Campbell) recommended
12 the following amendment:
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 1. Optional Continued Foster Care to Age 21
19 Pilot Program.--
20 (1) The Department of Children and Family Services is
21 directed to develop an optional continued foster care pilot
22 program in Miami-Dade county. A young adult who is not
23 eligible for the Road-to-Independence Scholarship may choose
24 to participate in this pilot program. The department may
25 accept no more than 100 former foster youth who are not
26 eligible to receive the Road-to-Independence Scholarship into
27 the pilot program. Any young adult who was formerly in foster
28 care and who chooses to participate in this program will
29 continue to receive all foster care services, remain under
30 continued court jurisdiction, and remain in their current
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1 arranged by the department until he or she leaves the pilot
2 program or until he or she becomes 21 years of age, whichever
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4 (2) A young adult who elects to participate in the
5 pilot program must notify the court at the last judicial
6 review hearing before he or she becomes 18 years of age. The
7 department must use the independent living assessment tool as
8 defined in section 409.1451(4)(b)4., Florida Statutes, to
9 assess each youth no later than one month after he or she
10 becomes 17 years of age and again upon the young adult's exit
11 from the pilot program or one month before he or she becomes
12 21 years of age, whichever comes first.
13 (3) The department shall identify a cohort of 100
14 former foster youth who were not eligible for the
15 Road-to-Independence Scholarship and who live in a county
16 other than Miami-Dade County. This cohort shall be compared to
17 the participants of the pilot program by using the same
18 independent living assessment tool.
19 (4) The department must prepare and present a report
20 to the Legislature on the findings of the pilot program no
21 later than December 1, 2008. The report must include an
22 analysis, including a fiscal analysis, and a recommendation of
23 the benefits and drawbacks of duplicating the pilot program in
24 the entire state.
25 Section 2. This act shall expire on July 1, 2009.
26 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.
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30 And the title is amended as follows:
31 Delete everything before the enacting clause
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1 and insert:
2 A bill to be entitled
3 An act relating to independent living;
4 directing the Department of Children and Family
5 Services to create a pilot program in
6 Miami-Dade County; specifying eligibility;
7 limiting enrollment; providing elements of the
8 program; requiring a young adult to notify the
9 court of a decision to participate in the pilot
10 program; identifying a cohort group for the
11 purposes of comparing results; directing the
12 department to prepare a report to the
13 Legislature; providing an expiration date and
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