Florida Senate - 2023                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1064
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/12/2023           .                                
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       The Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
       (Yarborough) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 29 - 39
    4  and insert:
    5         (b)1. Shall, on or before July 1, 2024, in coordination
    6  with the local managing entity, administer a validated trauma
    7  focused screening to a child removed from his or her parent,
    8  legal custodian, or caregiver to ensure that any acute trauma,
    9  if present, is timely identified and that the child is promptly
   10  referred to appropriate trauma services, including clinical
   11  evaluation and intervention if needed. This trauma-focused
   12  screening must occur as soon as practicable after the child’s
   13  removal but no later than 14 days after the shelter hearing. A
   14  child welfare professional administering a trauma screening
   15  pursuant to this subparagraph must request all relevant
   16  information from the child protective investigator necessary to
   17  complete the trauma screening. Any need for further evaluation
   18  or intervention, if identified, must address the impact of
   19  trauma on the child, including any trauma related to adverse
   20  experiences prior to removal, the event or events that
   21  immediately precipitated removal, if applicable, and any trauma
   22  related to the removal incident. To the extent possible, any
   23  evaluation or intervention shall be integrated into the child's
   24  overall mental and behavioral health treatment planning and
   25  shall not be considered an additional or adjunct service or
   26  treatment.