Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SPB 7164
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: FAV            .                                
                  01/21/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Latvala)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 52 - 77
    4  and insert:
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    6  private, nonprofit entity at the local level will promote
    7  improved access to care, promote service continuity, and provide
    8  for more efficient and effective delivery of substance abuse and
    9  mental health services. The Legislature finds that streamlining
   10  administrative processes will create cost efficiencies and
   11  provide flexibility to better match available services to
   12  consumers’ identified needs.
   13         (2) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term:
   14         (a) “Behavioral health services” means mental health
   15  services and substance abuse prevention and treatment services
   16  as defined in this chapter and chapter 397 which are provided
   17  using state and federal funds.
   18         (b) “Decisionmaking model” means a comprehensive management
   19  information system needed to answer the following management
   20  questions at the federal, state, regional, circuit, and local
   21  provider levels: who receives what services from which providers
   22  with what outcomes and at what costs?
   23         (c) “Geographic area” means a county, circuit, regional, or
   24  multiregional area in this state.
   25         (d) “Managing entity” means a corporation that is organized
   26  in this state, is designated or filed as a nonprofit
   27  organization under s. 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code,
   28  and is under contract to the department to manage the day-to-day
   29  operational delivery of behavioral health services through an
   30  organized system of care.
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   33         And the title is amended as follows:
   34         Delete lines 3 - 7
   35  and insert:
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   37  services; amending s. 394.9082, F.S.; redefining the term
   38  “provider networks”;