996014
Florida Senate - 2007
SB7100
The Committee on Health and Human Services Appropriations (Peaden)
recommended the following SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT for 4 (996004):
Section: 03
On Page: 019
Spec App: 270
| EXPLANATION:
Amendment to conform proviso to PCS 1124.
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NET IMPACT ON: Total Funds General Revenue Trust Funds
Recurring - 0 0 0
Non-Recurring - 0 0 0
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Positions & Amounts Positions & Amounts
DELETE INSERT
AGENCY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
Program: Services To Persons With
Disabilities
Home And Community Services 67100100
In Section 03 On Page 019
270 Special Categories 101555
Home And Community Based Services Waiver IOEE
DELETE from the seventh paragraph immediately following Specific
Appropriation 270:
rehabilitation
and insert in lieu thereof:
habilitation
DELETE from the seventh paragraph immediately following Specific
Appropriation 270:
Funds from Specific Appropriation 270 expended for residential
habilitation services, with an exception for intensive behavioral
clients, are limited to the number of hours medically necessary not to
exceed 8 hours per day.
At the beginning of the seventh paragraph immediatley following Specific
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Appropriation 270, INSERT:
Funds from Specific Appropriation 270 expended for residential
habilitation services, with an exception for clients who have intensive
medical or adaptive needs and that are essential for avoiding
institutionalization or who possess behavioral concerns that are
exceptional in intensity, duration, or frequency and present a
substantial risk of harm to themselves or others, are limited to the
number of hours medically necessary not to exceed 8 hours per day.
DELETE the eighth paragraph immediately following Specific Appropriation
270:
The agency shall work with the Agency for Health Care Administration to
develop a new Medicaid waiver to include all of the services in the
Family and Supported Living Waiver with the addition of residential
rehabilitation services. This waiver must include the 8 hour residential
rehabilitation cap and have an annual total expenditure cap per client
of $30,000. All current clients with annual service billings less than
or equal to $30,000 after the residential rehabilitation cap is imposed,
shall be moved to the new Medicaid waiver. The transition to the new
waiver must be accomplished by October 1, 2007.
At the end of existing proviso language, following Specific
Appropriation 270, INSERT:
The agency shall work with the Agency for Health Care Administration to
develop a new Medicaid waiver to include all of the services in the Home
and Community Based Services Waiver. This waiver will include the
residential habilitation and personal care assistance service caps and
have an annual total expenditure cap per client of $30,000. All clients
receiving services through the Home and Community Based Services Waiver
on March 1, 2007, shall be moved to the new Medicaid waiver, except
clients who 1)have service needs that exceed $30,000 for intensive
medical or adaptive needs and that are essential to avoid
institutionalization; or 2) possess behavioral concerns that are
exceptional in intensity, duration, or frequency, and present a
substantial risk of harm to themselves or others. The transition to the
new waiver must be accomplished by October 1, 2007.
| Line item amendments are accepted as part of the amendatory process. However, due to the necessity of using computerized systems this may entail a different placement within a budget entity or the renumbering of the specific appropriation items. Items printed in italics are computer codes and are not a part of the official text of this amendment. |
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