Florida Senate - 2014 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SPB 7076
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: WD .
03/11/2014 .
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(Thompson) recommended the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Between lines 608 and 609
4 insert:
5 Section 9. Children with Medically Complex Conditions Task
6 Force.—
7 (1) The Agency for Health Care Administration shall convene
8 a Children with Medically Complex Conditions Task Force for the
9 purpose of developing a plan to ensure that children with
10 medically complex conditions grow up with the emotional security
11 and continuity of a parental relationship and a stable living
12 arrangement and to reinforce that skilled nursing facilities are
13 temporary placements.
14 (2) The plan developed by the task force must include the
15 following:
16 (a) Uniform procedures applicable to each of the state
17 agencies on the task force to ensure that an individualized
18 permanency plan is developed for each child who resides in a
19 skilled nursing facility which focuses on facilitating a
20 permanent living arrangement with an enduring and nurturing
21 family. These uniform procedures must include:
22 1. Developing a family comprehensive plan to bring the
23 child home or to place the child with an alternative family that
24 will meet the goals of the plan;
25 2. Retaining with the parents the right to decide whether
26 the child is placed in or remains in a skilled nursing facility;
27 and
28 3. Coordinating the programs and services of each of the
29 state agencies on the task force to create an integrated system
30 of services for children with medically complex conditions.
31 (b) A family-based alternative system in which a child with
32 medically complex conditions who cannot reside with his or her
33 birth family may receive necessary services in a family-based
34 alternative setting instead of a skilled nursing facility. This
35 system shall include licensing, monitoring, ensuring quality of
36 care, recruiting and training of families, and involving the
37 birth family with the alternate family selected and in decisions
38 regarding the child’s daily life.
39 (c) Establishment of a facilitation of services responsible
40 for:
41 1. Developing and overseeing implementation of a child’s
42 individualized permanency plan for the successful transition of
43 a child from a skilled nursing facility to a permanent family;
44 and
45 2. Identifying and determining how funds and resources from
46 all available sources can be blended and used to provide
47 customized services and training and supports to implement a
48 child’s individualized permanency plan.
49 (d) A Medicaid waiver mechanism that can be used to provide
50 Medicaid waiver services to prevent the placement of children
51 with medically complex conditions in skilled nursing facilities.
52 (3) The task force shall consist of representatives
53 appointed from the following:
54 (a) The Agency for Health Care Administration.
55 (b) The Agency for Persons with Disabilities.
56 (c) The Department of Children and Families.
57 (d) The Department of Health.
58 (e) The Florida Developmental Disabilities Council, Inc.
59 (f) The Arc of Florida.
60 (g) The Florida Association of Rehabilitation Facilities.
61 (h) A pediatric skilled nursing facility.
62 (i) The family of a child with medically complex
63 conditions.
64 (4) Task force members shall serve without compensation but
65 are entitled to reimbursement for per diem and travel expenses
66 as provided in s. 112.061, Florida Statutes. The Florida
67 Developmental Disabilities Council, Inc., shall reimburse task
68 force members for travel expenses and shall provide
69 administrative support for the task force.
70 (5) The task force shall submit a report to the President
71 of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by
72 January 1, 2015. The report must identify legislative and state
73 agency actions needed to implement the plan developed under
74 subsection (2).
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77 And the title is amended as follows:
78 Delete line 31
79 and insert:
80 provider service network; requiring the Agency for
81 Health Care Administration to convene a Children with
82 Medically Complex Conditions Task Force; requiring the
83 task force to develop a specified plan; providing for
84 membership on the task force; requiring the Florida
85 Developmental Disabilities Council, Inc., to provide
86 travel reimbursement for task force members; requiring
87 the task force to submit a report to the Legislature
88 by a specified date; amending ss. 39.302, 39.524,