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  2         An act relating to the Primary Care Access

  3         Network; creating two pilot programs to provide

  4         extended operating hours for the purpose of

  5         offering health care services at overcrowded

  6         clinics in the Primary Care Access Network in

  7         Orange, Pasco, Manatee, Sarasota, and DeSoto

  8         Counties; directing the Agency for Health Care

  9         Administration to establish a pilot program in

10         Orange and Pasco Counties and a pilot program

11         in Manatee, Sarasota, and DeSoto Counties;

12         requiring the agency to develop procedures for

13         operating the pilot programs; requiring the

14         agency to submit a report with recommendations

15         to the Governor and the Legislature by a

16         specified date; providing an appropriation;

17         providing an effective date.

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

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21         Section 1.  (1)  The Legislature finds that the Primary

22  Care Access Network (PCAN) was founded to address the needs of

23  the uninsured and those who are medically needy by providing a

24  system of service delivery that builds upon the strengths of

25  its current health provider partners. There has been an

26  average 32-percent decrease in nonurgent emergency room

27  services used by the uninsured in areas where one of the

28  clinics is in operation. In accordance with these findings,

29  the Agency for Health Care Administration shall establish a

30  1-year pilot program in Orange and Pasco Counties and a 1-year

31  pilot program in Manatee, Sarasota, and DeSoto Counties, which


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 1  shall each offer health care services during the weekend and

 2  after regular business hours during the week.

 3         (2)  To the extent that funding is available, the pilot

 4  program shall provide funds to operate the PCAN clinics during

 5  the extended hours that the clinics are open and to pay the

 6  employees of those clinics accordingly.

 7         (3)  The agency shall develop procedures for operating

 8  the pilot program.

 9         (4)  Each January 1 for the duration of the pilot

10  program the agency shall submit to the Governor, the President

11  of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives

12  an annual report on the success and outcomes achieved by the

13  pilot program, which must include a recommendation as to

14  whether the pilot program should be continued, terminated, or

15  expanded.

16         Section 2.  The sum of $3.5 million in nonrecurring

17  funds is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the

18  Agency for Health Care Administration for the purpose of

19  implementing this act during the 2007-2008 fiscal year.

20         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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