Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 748
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/13/2013           .                                
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       The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Sobel)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 35 and 36
    4  insert:
    5         Section 2. Notwithstanding s. 430.707, Florida Statutes,
    6  and subject to federal approval of the application to be a site
    7  for the Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE),
    8  the Agency for Health Care Administration shall contract with
    9  one private health care organization with more than 30 years’
   10  experience as a licensed hospice provider and currently licensed
   11  as a hospice provider to serve individuals and families in Clay,
   12  Alachua, Bradford and Putnam Counties. This not-for-profit
   13  organization shall provide PACE services to frail elders who
   14  reside in Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist,
   15  Hamilton, Lafayette, Levy, Putnam, Suwannee, and Union counties.
   16  The organization shall be exempt from the requirements of
   17  Chapter 641, Florida Statutes. The agency in consultation with
   18  the Department of Elderly Affairs and subject to an
   19  appropriation, shall approve up to 300 initial enrollees in the
   20  Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly established by
   21  this organization to serve frail elders who reside in Alachua,
   22  Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette,
   23  Levy, Putnam, Suwannee, and Union counties.
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   26         And the title is amended as follows:
   27         Delete line 11
   28  and insert:
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   30         to participate in the program in the named counties;
   31         requiring the Agency for Health Care 3 Administration
   32         to contract with a certain organization to provide
   33         services under the federal Program of All-inclusive
   34         Care for the Elderly in Alachua, Bradford, Clay,
   35         Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, Levy,
   36         Putnam, Suwannee, and Union counties; providing an
   37         exemption from ch. 641, Florida Statutes, for the
   38         organization; requiring the organization, subject to
   39         an appropriation, to enroll a specified number of
   40         persons to participate in the program in the named
   41         counties;