Florida Senate - 2012 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 434
Barcode 878336
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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Floor: 3/AD/2R .
01/10/2012 03:30 PM .
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Senator Rich moved the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Between lines 589 and 590
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5 (3)HEALTH CARE COORDINATION. –
6 (a) The department shall work with the Agency for Health
7 Care Administration in consultation with pediatricians, other
8 experts in health care, and experts in and recipients of child
9 welfare services, to develop a plan for a coordinated approach
10 to providing comprehensive health care for children in
11 care.Comprehensive health care refers to strategies and services
12 for meeting the physical, dental, mental, emotional, and
13 developmental health needs of children. It includes all health
14 care including primary, tertiary, and specialty care. The plan
15 must include the following components:
16 1. A schedule for the initial and follow-up health
17 screenings;
18 2. A strategy for providing access to health care services
19 and treatment for health needs identified through screenings;
20 3. A strategy for the updating and appropriate sharing of
21 health care data and information which may include establishing
22 an electronic health record;
23 4. A system for ensuring continuity of health care services
24 which may include establishing a medical home for each child in
25 care;
26 5. A procedure for providing oversight of prescription
27 medication;
28 6. A protocol to increase collaboration among health,
29 mental health, child welfare, juvenile justice, courts,
30 education, and other child-serving systems, as well as providers
31 and community organizations, to meet the health care needs of
32 children in care; and
33 7. A strategy for including families in health care
34 decisions for children in care.
35 (b) The department shall submit a report to the Governor
36 and the Legislature by March 1 and September 1 of each year
37 until a system for providing comprehensive health care to
38 children in care has been implemented statewide. The report must
39 address progress that has been made toward achieving each of the
40 components in paragraph (a).
41 (4) PERMANENT CONNECTIONS. –
42 (a)The department, in collaboration with the Independent
43 Living Services Advisory Council shall establish a workgroup for
44 the purpose of developing and implementing strategies to ensure
45 that each child who leaves care has at least one positive,
46 reliable caring adult who will continue to support him or her
47 after leaving care, through his or her young adulthood and
48 beyond. This adult may include:
49 1. People with whom the youth has some emotional
50 attachment such as birth family, extended family, kin, adoptive
51 family, foster family, teachers, mentors or coaches;
52 2. People with whom the youth would like to stay connected
53 or re-establish contact; or
54 3. People who the youth defines as family or supports.
55 (b) The department shall submit a report by December 31 of
56 each year to the Governor and the Legislature which includes a
57 summary of the actions taken and practices implemented statewide
58 to ensure that no child leaves care without a lifelong
59 connection to a supportive adult.
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63 And the title is amended as follows:
64 Delete line 64
65 and insert:
66 of school, community, and family life; requiring the
67 department to work with the Agency for Health Care
68 Administration and other stakeholders to develop a
69 plan for providing comprehensive health care for a
70 child; requiring a report; requiring the department to
71 work with the Independent Living Services Advisory
72 Council to develop strategies to ensure that no child
73 leaves care without a permanent connection to a
74 committed adult; requiring a report; requiring