Florida Senate - 2007 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
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11 The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
12 (Storms) recommended the following amendment:
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
15 Delete everything after the enacting clause
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18 Section 1. Community-based pilot projects.--The Agency
19 for Persons with Disabilities and the Agency for Health Care
20 Administration shall establish pilot projects that demonstrate
21 strategies and methods for the provision of community-based
22 care to clients with developmental disabilities who are
23 currently served through a Medicaid home and community-based
24 services waiver program authorized under s. 409.906(13),
25 Florida Statutes. The projects shall document client outcomes
26 associated with the use of a valid needs assessment of client
27 level of need, set rates based on level of need, and
28 encourage/the use of community-centered services and supports.
29 The pilot projects shall establish strong financial controls
30 in order to ensure predictable and controlled annual costs.
31 Medicaid service delivery, including, but not limited to,
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1 service authorization, fee setting, care management, and
2 monitoring shall be managed locally through the area offices
3 of the Agency for Persons with Disabilities in order to
4 encourage provider development. The Agency for Persons with
5 Disabilities shall submit a report detailing the progress,
6 strategies, specific models used, and recommendations for the
7 future direction of the pilot projects to the Executive Office
8 of the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of
9 the House of Representatives, and the health and human
10 services appropriations committees of the Legislature by March
11 1, 2008, and periodically thereafter. An advisory committee,
12 which includes representation from stakeholders such as
13 families, self-advocates, service providers, and advocacy
14 groups, shall annually evaluate the implementation of the
15 pilot projects. The pilot projects shall be implemented in
16 Area 1, Area 13, and parts of the Suncoast region of the
17 Agency for Persons with Disabilities by July 1, 2007. Further
18 expansion of these pilot projects requires legislative
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20 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a
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25 And the title is amended as follows:
26 Delete everything before the enacting clause
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29 A bill to be entitled
30 An act relating to persons with developmental
31 disabilities; requiring the Agency for Persons
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1 with Disabilities and the Agency for Health
2 Care Administration to establish pilot projects
3 for certain clients who are currently served
4 through federal Medicaid home and
5 community-based services waivers; providing
6 project requirements; requiring a report;
7 requiring legislative approval for further
8 expansion; providing an effective date.
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