Senate Bill sb2550c2

    Florida Senate - 2005                    CS for CS for SB 2550

    By the Committees on Commerce and Consumer Services;
    Education; and Senator Wise




    577-2279-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to assistive technology devices

  3         and services; creating s. 1003.575, F.S.;

  4         requiring interagency agreements to ensure that

  5         assistive technology devices be retained for

  6         use by a person with disabilities as he or she

  7         makes certain transitions; providing an

  8         effective date.

  9  

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

11  

12         Section 1.  Section 1003.575, Florida Statutes, is

13  created to read:

14         1003.575  Assistive technology devices; findings;

15  interagency agreements.--Accessibility, utilization, and

16  coordination of appropriate assistive technology devices and

17  services are essential as a young person with disabilities

18  moves from early-intervention to preschool, from preschool to

19  school, from one school to another, and from school to

20  employment or independent living. To ensure that an assistive

21  technology device issued to a young person as part of his or

22  her individualized family support plan, individual support

23  plan, or an individual education plan remains with the

24  individual through such transitions, the following agencies

25  shall enter into interagency agreements, as appropriate, to

26  ensure the transaction of assistive technology devices:

27         (1)  The Florida Infants and Toddlers Early

28  Intervention Program in the Division of Children's Medical

29  Services of the Department of Health.

30  

31  

                                  1

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 2005                    CS for CS for SB 2550
    577-2279-05




 1         (2)  The Division of Blind Services, the Bureau of

 2  Exceptional Education and Student Services, and the Division

 3  of Vocational Rehabilitation of the Department of Education.

 4         (3)  The Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program

 5  administered by the Department of Education and the Agency for

 6  Workforce Innovation.

 7  

 8  Interagency agreements entered into pursuant to this section

 9  shall provide a framework for ensuring that young persons with

10  disabilities and their families, educators, and employers are

11  informed about the utilization and coordination of assistive

12  technology devices and services that may assist in meeting

13  transition needs, and shall establish a mechanism by which a

14  young person or his or her parent may request that an

15  assistive technology device remain with the young person as he

16  or she moves through the continuum from home to school to

17  postschool.

18         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.

19  

20          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
21                            CS/SB 2550

22                                 

23  This committee substitute includes a catch-line in the bill
    and includes transitions from early intervention to pre-school
24  in the list of required interagency agreements.

25  

26  

27  

28  

29  

30  

31  

                                  2

CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.