Florida Senate - 2006                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 634
                        Barcode 493688
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11  The Committee on Transportation and Economic Development
12  Appropriations (Dockery) recommended the following amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
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16            page 8, line 21, delete those lines
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19         Section 2.  Subsection (28) is added to section
20  427.013, Florida Statutes, to read:
21         427.013  The Commission for the Transportation
22  Disadvantaged; purpose and responsibilities.--The purpose of
23  the commission is to accomplish the coordination of
24  transportation services provided to the transportation
25  disadvantaged. The goal of this coordination shall be to
26  assure the cost-effective provision of transportation by
27  qualified community transportation coordinators or
28  transportation operators for the transportation disadvantaged
29  without any bias or presumption in favor of multioperator
30  systems or not-for-profit transportation operators over single
31  operator systems or for-profit transportation operators. In
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    Florida Senate - 2006                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 634
                        Barcode 493688
 1  carrying out this purpose, the commission shall:
 2         (28)  In consultation with the Agency for Health Care
 3  Administration and the Department of Transportation, develop
 4  an allocation methodology that equitably distributes all
 5  transportation funds under the control of the commission to
 6  compensate counties, community transportation coordinators,
 7  and other entities providing transportation disadvantaged
 8  services. The methodology shall separately account for
 9  Medicaid beneficiaries. The methodology shall consider such
10  factors as the actual costs of each transportation
11  disadvantaged trip based on prior-year information,
12  efficiencies that a provider might adopt to reduce costs,
13  results of the rate and cost comparisons conducted under
14  subsections (24) and (25), as well as cost efficiencies of
15  trips when compared to the local cost of transporting the
16  general public. This subsection does not supersede the
17  authority of the Agency for Health Care Administration to
18  distribute Medicaid funds.
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22  And the title is amended as follows:
23         On page 1, line 25, following the semicolon
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26         prescribing requirements for the methodology;
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