| 1 | Representative(s) Seiler offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Between lines 259 and 260, insert: |
| 5 | Section 4. Subsections (1), (2), and (11) of section |
| 6 | 430.2053, Florida Statutes, are amended to read: |
| 7 | 430.2053 Aging resource centers.-- |
| 8 | (1) The department, in consultation with the Agency for |
| 9 | Health Care Administration and the Department of Children and |
| 10 | Family Services, shall develop pilot projects for aging resource |
| 11 | centers. By October 31, 2004, the department, in consultation |
| 12 | with the agency and the Department of Children and Family |
| 13 | Services, shall develop an implementation plan for aging |
| 14 | resource centers and submit the plan to the Governor, the |
| 15 | President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of |
| 16 | Representatives. The plan must include qualifications for |
| 17 | designation as a center, the functions to be performed by each |
| 18 | center, and a process for determining that a current area agency |
| 19 | on aging is ready to assume the functions of an aging resource |
| 20 | center. |
| 21 | (2) Each area agency on aging shall develop, in |
| 22 | consultation with the existing community care for the elderly |
| 23 | lead agencies within their planning and service areas, a |
| 24 | proposal that describes the process the area agency on aging |
| 25 | intends to undertake to transition to an aging resource center |
| 26 | prior to July 1, 2005, and that describes the area agency's |
| 27 | compliance with the requirements of this section. However, the |
| 28 | department shall complete the transition of any area agency on |
| 29 | aging within the geographic boundary of a pilot program |
| 30 | authorized in s. 409.912(5) to an aging resource center no later |
| 31 | than 60 days in advance of the first date of enrollment in the |
| 32 | pilot program. The department shall complete the transition of |
| 33 | all area agencies on aging to aging resource centers no later |
| 34 | than January 1, 2008. The proposals must be submitted to the |
| 35 | department prior to December 31, 2004. The department shall |
| 36 | evaluate all proposals for readiness and, prior to March 1, |
| 37 | 2005, shall select three area agencies on aging which meet the |
| 38 | requirements of this section to begin the transition to aging |
| 39 | resource centers. Those area agencies on aging which are not |
| 40 | selected to begin the transition to aging resource centers |
| 41 | shall, in consultation with the department and the existing |
| 42 | community care for the elderly lead agencies within their |
| 43 | planning and service areas, amend their proposals as necessary |
| 44 | and resubmit them to the department prior to July 1, 2005. The |
| 45 | department may transition additional area agencies to aging |
| 46 | resource centers as it determines that area agencies are in |
| 47 | compliance with the requirements of this section. |
| 48 | (11) The services to be administered through the aging |
| 49 | resource center shall include those funded by the following |
| 50 | programs: |
| 51 | (a) Community care for the elderly. |
| 52 | (b) Home care for the elderly. |
| 53 | (c) Contracted services. |
| 54 | (d) Alzheimer's disease initiative. |
| 55 | (e) Aged and disabled adult Medicaid waiver. |
| 56 | (f) Assisted living for the frail elderly Medicaid waiver. |
| 57 | (g) Older Americans Act. |
| 58 | (h) Medicaid nursing home services. |
| 59 | (i) Medicaid Nursing Home Diversion Program waiver. |
| 60 | (j) Adult Day Health Care waiver. |
| 61 | (k) Assistive Care Services. |
| 62 | (l) Channeling waiver. |
| 63 | (m) Consumer-Directed Care waiver. |
| 64 | (n) Assisted Living for the Frail Elderly Waiver. |
| 65 | (o) Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly. |
| 66 | (p) Any other long-term care program or Medicaid service |
| 67 | for persons 60 years of age and older. |
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| 70 | Remove line(s) 27 and insert: |
| 71 | amending s. 430.2053, F.S.; deleting obsolete requirements for |
| 72 | aging resource centers; directing the Department of Elderly |
| 73 | Affairs to complete the transition of area agencies on aging to |
| 74 | aging resource centers; providing deadlines for the transition |
| 75 | of area agencies on aging to aging resource centers; delineating |
| 76 | services to be administered through aging resource centers; |
| 77 | providing an effective date. |