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By the Committee on Health and Human Services Appropriations;
and Senator Peaden
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act implementing the 2007-2008 General
3 Appropriations Act; providing legislative
4 intent; requiring that funds appropriated for
5 forensic mental health treatment services be
6 allocated to the areas of the state having the
7 greatest demand for services and treatment
8 capacity; requiring the Department of Children
9 and Family Services to ensure that certain
10 information regarding child welfare cases is
11 entered into the Florida Safe Families Network;
12 requiring that the department coordinate with
13 the Office of the State Courts Administrator
14 and the Statewide Guardian Ad Litem Office in
15 order to provide judges, magistrates, and
16 guardians ad litem with access to such
17 information; requiring that the department
18 report its progress on providing such access to
19 the Governor and Legislature; providing for
20 future expiration; providing a finding that the
21 authorization and issuance of certain debt is
22 in the best interest of the state; providing
23 for the effect of a veto of a specific
24 appropriation or proviso to which implementing
25 language refers; providing for the continued
26 operation of certain provisions notwithstanding
27 a future repeal or expiration provided by the
28 act; providing for severability; providing
29 effective dates.
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31 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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1 Section 1. It is the intent of the Legislature that
2 the implementing and administering provisions of this act
3 apply to the General Appropriations Act for the 2007-2008
4 fiscal year.
5 Section 2. In order to implement Specific
6 Appropriation 388 of the 2007-2008 General Appropriations Act,
7 and notwithstanding s. 394.908(3)(a) and (b), Florida
8 Statutes, funds appropriated for forensic mental health
9 treatment services in Specific Appropriation 388 shall be
10 allocated to the areas of the state having the greatest demand
11 for services and treatment capacity. This section expires July
12 1, 2008.
13 Section 3. In order to implement Specific
14 Appropriations 311 and 321 of the 2007-2008 General
15 Appropriations Act, the Department of Children and Family
16 Services shall ensure that all public and private agencies and
17 institutions participating in child welfare cases enter
18 information specified by rule of the department into the
19 Florida Safe Families Network in order to maintain the
20 accuracy and usefulness of the system. The Florida Safe
21 Families Network is intended to be the department's automated
22 child welfare case-management system designed to provide child
23 welfare workers with a mechanism for managing child welfare
24 cases more efficiently and tracking children and families more
25 effectively. The department shall coordinate with the Office
26 of the State Courts Administrator and the Statewide Guardian
27 Ad Litem Office for the purpose of providing any judge or
28 magistrate and any guardian ad litem assigned to a dependency
29 court case with access to information in the Florida Safe
30 Families Network relating to a child welfare case which is
31 required to be filed with the court pursuant to chapter 39,
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1 Florida Statutes, by the date of the network's release during
2 the 2007-2008 fiscal year. The department shall report to the
3 Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the
4 House of Representatives by February 1, 2008, with respect to
5 progress on providing access to the Florida Safe Families
6 Network as provided in this section. This section is repealed
7 effective July 1, 2008.
8 Section 4. In order to implement the issuance of new
9 debt authorized in the 2007-2008 General Appropriations Act,
10 and pursuant to the requirements of s. 215.98, Florida
11 Statutes, the Legislature determines that the authorization
12 and issuance of debt for the 2007-2008 fiscal year is in the
13 best interest of the state and should be implemented.
14 Section 5. A section of this act that implements more
15 than one specific appropriation or more than one portion of
16 specifically identified proviso language in the 2007-2008
17 General Appropriations Act is void if all the specific
18 appropriations or portions of specifically identified proviso
19 language are vetoed.
20 Section 6. If any other act passed in 2007 contains a
21 provision that is substantively the same as a provision in
22 this act, but that removes or is otherwise not subject to the
23 future repeal applied to such provision by this act, the
24 Legislature intends that the provision in the other act shall
25 take precedence and shall continue to operate, notwithstanding
26 the future repeal provided by this act.
27 Section 7. If any provision of this act or its
28 application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the
29 invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of
30 the act which can be given effect without the invalid
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1 provision or application, and to this end the provisions of
2 this act are severable.
3 Section 8. Except as otherwise expressly provided in
4 this act, this act shall take effect July 1, 2007; or, if this
5 act fails to become a law until after that date, it shall take
6 effect upon becoming a law and shall operate retroactively to
7 July 1, 2007.
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9 STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
10 Senate Bill 1128
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12 Requires that funds appropriated for forensic mental health
treatment services be allocated to the areas of the state
13 having greatest demand for services and treatment capacity.
14 Requires all public and private agencies and institutions
participating in child welfare cases to enter certain
15 information into the Florida Safe Families Network (FSFN) in
order to maintain the accuracy and usefulness of the automated
16 child welfare case management system.
17 Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to
work with the Office of the State Courts Administrator and the
18 Statewide Guardian Ad Litem Office to allow a judge,
magistrate, or guardian ad litem to access FSFN information
19 concerning cases to which they are assigned, by the date of
the network's release during fiscal year 2007-2008.
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Requires the department to submit a report on its progress on
21 providing access to the Florida Safe Families Network by
February 1, 2008.
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Declares legislative determination that the authorization and
23 issuance of debt for the 2007-2008 fiscal year is in the best
interest of the state and should be implemented.
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Specifies that no section will take effect if the
25 appropriations and proviso to which it relates are vetoed.
26 Provides that a permanent change made by another law to any of
the same statutes amended by this bill takes precedence over
27 the provision in this bill.
28 Provides a severability clause.
29 Provides a contingent effective date.
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