Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 2694
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/18/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability
       (Lawson) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 151 and 152
    4  insert:
    5  (5) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the following agencies may
    6  enter into the following contracts or agreements:
    7         (a) In order to spend funds appropriated for the approved
    8  5-year work program, the Department of Transportation may enter
    9  into contracts and other agreements that require the state to
   10  pay liquidated damages as a result of a breach of those
   11  contracts or agreements.
   12         (b) In order to administer the state group insurance
   13  program as provided in s. 110.123, the Department of Management
   14  Services may enter into contracts and other agreements that
   15  permit health care providers, health maintenance organizations,
   16  preferred provider organizations, and insurers to collect
   17  premiums and copayments from participants in the group insurance
   18  program.
   19         (c) In order to administer the state Medicaid plan and the
   20  Florida Healthy Kids program, the Agency for Health Care
   21  Administration may enter into contracts and other agreements
   22  that permit health care providers to collect premiums and
   23  copayments from participants in the Medicaid plan and the
   24  Healthy Kids program.
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   26  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   27         And the title is amended as follows:
   28         Delete line 17
   29  and insert:
   30  “agreement”; providing exceptions for certain agency contracts
   31  or agreements; creating s. 216.312, F.S.; requiring the