Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1052
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Budget (Altman) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 14 - 24
    4  and insert:
    5         (1)(a)1. The purpose of a crisis stabilization unit is to
    6  stabilize and redirect a client to the most appropriate and
    7  least restrictive community setting available, consistent with
    8  the client’s needs. Crisis stabilization units may screen,
    9  assess, and admit for stabilization persons who present
   10  themselves to the unit and persons who are brought to the unit
   11  under s. 394.463. Clients may be provided 24-hour observation,
   12  medication prescribed by a physician or psychiatrist, and other
   13  appropriate services. Crisis stabilization units shall provide
   14  services regardless of the client’s ability to pay and shall be
   15  limited in size to a maximum of 30 beds.
   16         2. The department shall implement a demonstration project
   17  in region 18 to test the impact of expanding maximum beds
   18  authorized in crisis stabilization units from 30 to 50 beds.
   19  Specifically, the department shall:
   20         a. Authorize existing public or private crisis
   21  stabilization units in region 18 to expand bed capacity to a
   22  maximum of 50; and
   23         b. Assess the impact on the availability of crisis
   24  stabilization services to clients.
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   27         And the title is amended as follows:
   28         Delete lines 3 - 5
   29  and insert:
   30         amending s. 394.875, F.S.; requiring the Department of
   31         Children and Family Services to implement a
   32         demonstration project to test the impact of expanding
   33         maximum beds authorized in crisis stabilization units
   34         in a specified region and to assess the impact on the
   35         availability of crisis stabilization services to
   36         clients; providing an effective date.