Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1052
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Budget (Altman) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (642592) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Delete lines 14 - 24
    5  and insert:
    6         (1)(a)1. The purpose of a crisis stabilization unit is to
    7  stabilize and redirect a client to the most appropriate and
    8  least restrictive community setting available, consistent with
    9  the client’s needs. Crisis stabilization units may screen,
   10  assess, and admit for stabilization persons who present
   11  themselves to the unit and persons who are brought to the unit
   12  under s. 394.463. Clients may be provided 24-hour observation,
   13  medication prescribed by a physician or psychiatrist, and other
   14  appropriate services. Crisis stabilization units shall provide
   15  services regardless of the client’s ability to pay and shall be
   16  limited in size to a maximum of 30 beds.
   17         2. The department shall implement a demonstration project
   18  in circuit 18 to test the impact of expanding maximum beds
   19  authorized in crisis stabilization units from 30 to 50 beds.
   20  Specifically, the department shall:
   21         a. Authorize existing public or private crisis
   22  stabilization units in circuit 18 to expand bed capacity to a
   23  maximum of 50; and
   24         b. Assess the impact on the availability of crisis
   25  stabilization services to clients.
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   28         And the title is amended as follows:
   29         Delete lines 3 - 5
   30  and insert:
   31         amending s. 394.875, F.S.; requiring the Department of
   32         Children and Family Services to implement a
   33         demonstration project to test the impact of expanding
   34         maximum beds authorized in crisis stabilization units
   35         in a specified circuit and to assess the impact on the
   36         availability of crisis stabilization services to
   37         clients; providing an effective date.