| 1 | Representative Metz offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Between lines 34 and 35, insert: |
| 5 | Section 2. Subsection (5) of section 393.18, Florida |
| 6 | Statutes, is amended to read: |
| 7 | 393.18 Comprehensive transitional education program.-A |
| 8 | comprehensive transitional education program is a group of |
| 9 | jointly operating centers or units, the collective purpose of |
| 10 | which is to provide a sequential series of educational care, |
| 11 | training, treatment, habilitation, and rehabilitation services |
| 12 | to persons who have developmental disabilities and who have |
| 13 | severe or moderate maladaptive behaviors. However, this section |
| 14 | does not require such programs to provide services only to |
| 15 | persons with developmental disabilities. All such services shall |
| 16 | be temporary in nature and delivered in a structured residential |
| 17 | setting, having the primary goal of incorporating the principle |
| 18 | of self-determination in establishing permanent residence for |
| 19 | persons with maladaptive behaviors in facilities that are not |
| 20 | associated with the comprehensive transitional education |
| 21 | program. The staff shall include behavior analysts and teachers, |
| 22 | as appropriate, who shall be available to provide services in |
| 23 | each component center or unit of the program. A behavior analyst |
| 24 | must be certified pursuant to s. 393.17. |
| 25 | (5)(a) Licensure is authorized for comprehensive |
| 26 | transitional education programs which by July 1, 1989: |
| 27 | 1.(a) Were in actual operation; or |
| 28 | 2.(b) Owned a fee simple interest in real property for |
| 29 | which a county or city government has approved zoning allowing |
| 30 | for the placement of the facilities described in this |
| 31 | subsection, and have registered an intent with the agency to |
| 32 | operate a comprehensive transitional education program. However, |
| 33 | nothing prohibits the assignment by such a registrant to another |
| 34 | entity at a different site within the state, if there is |
| 35 | compliance with the criteria of this program and local zoning |
| 36 | requirements and each residential facility within the component |
| 37 | centers or units of the program authorized under this paragraph |
| 38 | does not exceed a capacity of 15 persons. |
| 39 | (b) Licensure is authorized of a comprehensive |
| 40 | transitional education program to a program that was in actual |
| 41 | operation on July 1, 2000, and which has registered an intent |
| 42 | with the agency to establish and operate a comprehensive |
| 43 | transitional education program at a separate site within the |
| 44 | state, if there is compliance with the criteria of this program |
| 45 | and local zoning requirements and each residential facility |
| 46 | within the component centers or units of the program authorized |
| 47 | under this paragraph does not exceed a capacity of 15 persons. |
| 48 | Nothing herein would require or mandate the expenditure of state |
| 49 | funds, in excess of funds appropriated by the Legislature, for |
| 50 | placement of individuals within the program licensed pursuant to |
| 51 | this paragraph. |
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| 55 | T I T L E A M E N D M E N T |
| 56 | Remove line 9 and insert: |
| 57 | that requirement; amending s. 393.18, F.S., relating to |
| 58 | comprehensive transitional education programs; authorizing |
| 59 | licensure of certain programs meeting specified criteria; |
| 60 | providing an effective date. |