Florida Senate - 2022                              CS for SB 538
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Rules; and Senator Hooper
       
       
       
       
       
       595-03654-22                                           2022538c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to private instructional personnel
    3         providing applied behavior analysis services; amending
    4         s. 1003.572, F.S.; revising the definition of the term
    5         “private instructional personnel” to include certain
    6         registered behavior technicians; requiring a
    7         registered behavior technician to meet specified
    8         requirements to provide services; providing an
    9         effective date.
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   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Present paragraphs (b) through (f) of subsection
   14  (1) of section 1003.572, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as
   15  paragraphs (c) through (g), respectively, and a new paragraph
   16  (b) is added to that subsection, to read:
   17         1003.572 Collaboration of public and private instructional
   18  personnel.—
   19         (1) As used in this section, the term “private
   20  instructional personnel” means:
   21         (b) Registered behavior technicians who have a nationally
   22  recognized paraprofessional certification in behavior analysis
   23  and who practice under the supervision of individuals described
   24  in paragraph (a) by assisting and supporting such individuals in
   25  the provision of applied behavior analysis services. To provide
   26  services under this section, the registered behavior technician
   27  must be employed by an enrolled Medicaid provider.
   28         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.