Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 230
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Altman) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 19 - 52
    4  and insert:
    5         (2) There is created an additional pilot project in Broward
    6  and Palm Beach Counties to provide personal devices to aid
    7  search-and-rescue efforts for persons with special needs in the
    8  case of elopement.
    9         (3) Participants for the pilot project in the counties
   10  specified in subsection (1) shall be selected based on criteria
   11  developed by the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities at
   12  the University of Florida. Participants for the pilot project
   13  specified in subsection (2) shall be selected based on criteria
   14  developed by the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities at
   15  Florida Atlantic University. Criteria for participation in the
   16  pilot projects must include, at a minimum, the person’s risk of
   17  elopement. The qualifying participants shall be selected on a
   18  first-come, first–served basis by the respective centers to the
   19  extent of available funding within their existing resources. The
   20  project must be voluntary and free of charge to participants.
   21         (4) Under the pilot projects, personal devices to aid
   22  search-and-rescue efforts which are attachable to clothing or
   23  otherwise worn shall be provided by the centers to the sheriff’s
   24  offices of the participating counties. The devices shall be
   25  distributed to project participants by the county sheriff’s
   26  offices in conjunction with the centers. The centers shall fund
   27  any costs associated with monitoring the devices.
   28         (5) The centers shall submit a preliminary report by
   29  December 1, 2016, and a final report by December 15, 2017, to
   30  the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of
   31  the House of Representatives describing the implementation and
   32  operation of the pilot projects. At a minimum, the report must
   33  include the criteria used to select participants, the number of
   34  participants, the nature of the participants’ special needs, the
   35  number of participants who elope, the amount of time taken to
   36  rescue such participants following elopement, and the outcome of
   37  any rescue attempts. The final report must also provide
   38  recommendations for modification or continued implementation of
   39  the projects.
   40         (6) The projects shall operate to the extent of available
   41  funding within the respective centers’ existing resources.
   42         (7) This section expires June 30, 2018.
   43         Section 2. For the 2016-2017 fiscal year, the sum of
   44  $100,000 is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the
   45  Center for Autism and Related Disabilities at the University of
   46  Florida and the sum of $100,000 is appropriated from the General
   47  Revenue Fund to the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities
   48  at Florida Atlantic University for the purpose of implementing
   49  this act.
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   52  And the title is amended as follows:
   53         Delete line 3
   54  and insert:
   55         creating s. 937.041, F.S.; creating pilot projects in