Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1516
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/09/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Regulation (Gaetz) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 1322 and 1323
    4  insert:
    5         Section 12. Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section
    6  393.502, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         393.502 Family care councils.—
    8         (2) MEMBERSHIP.—
    9         (b) At least three of the members of the council must be
   10  individuals receiving or waiting to receive services from the
   11  agency consumers. One such member shall be an individual a
   12  consumer who has been receiving received services within the 4
   13  years before prior to the date of recommendation, or the legal
   14  guardian of such a consumer. The remainder of the council
   15  members shall be parents, grandparents, nonpaid full-time
   16  caregivers, nonpaid legal guardians, or siblings of individual’s
   17  who have persons with developmental disabilities and who qualify
   18  for services pursuant to this chapter. A nonpaid full-time
   19  caregiver or nonpaid legal guardian may not serve at the same
   20  time as the individual who is receiving care from the caregiver
   21  or who is the ward of the guardian.
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   24         And the title is amended as follows:
   25         Delete line 46
   26  and insert:
   27         client wages at sheltered workshops; amending s.
   28         393.502, F.S.; revising the membership of family care
   29         councils; amending s.