Florida Senate - 2023 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 1064
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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03/14/2023 .
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The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
(Yarborough) recommended the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete everything after the enacting clause
4 and insert:
5 Section 1. Present paragraphs (b) through (n) of subsection
6 (1) of section 409.988, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as
7 paragraphs (c) through (o), respectively, and a new paragraph
8 (b) is added to that subsection, to read:
9 409.988 Community-based care lead agency duties; general
10 provisions.—
11 (1) DUTIES.—A lead agency:
12 (b)1. Shall, in coordination with the local managing
13 entity, administer a validated trauma-focused screening to a
14 child removed from his or her parent, legal custodian, or
15 caregiver to ensure any trauma related to the child's removal is
16 timely identified, if present, and that the child is referred
17 promptly to appropriate trauma services, including clinical
18 evaluation and intervention if needed. The trauma-focused
19 screening must occur as soon as practicable subsequent to the
20 child’s removal but no later than 14 days after the shelter
21 hearing. The screening and therapy, if recommended, must
22 evaluate and address the impact of the removal to the child.
23 2. Shall offer voluntary trauma screening and appropriate
24 trauma services to a child and his or her family in the event
25 that a shelter petition is denied and the child is returned to
26 his or her parent, legal custodian, or caregiver.
27 Section 2. Present paragraphs (b) through (f) of subsection
28 (1) of section 409.996, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as
29 paragraphs (c) through (g), respectively, a new paragraph (b) is
30 added to that subsection, and paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of
31 that section is amended, to read:
32 409.996 Duties of the Department of Children and Families.
33 The department shall contract for the delivery, administration,
34 or management of care for children in the child protection and
35 child welfare system. In doing so, the department retains
36 responsibility for the quality of contracted services and
37 programs and shall ensure that, at a minimum, services are
38 delivered in accordance with applicable federal and state
39 statutes and regulations and the performance standards and
40 metrics specified in the strategic plan created under s.
41 20.19(1).
42 (1) The department shall enter into contracts with lead
43 agencies for the performance of the duties by the lead agencies
44 established in s. 409.988. At a minimum, the contracts must do
45 all of the following:
46 (b) Require lead agencies and managing entities to
47 coordinate to administer a validated trauma-focused screening to
48 a child removed from his or her parent, legal custodian, or
49 caregiver to ensure any trauma related to the child's removal is
50 timely identified, if present, and that the child is referred
51 promptly to appropriate trauma services, including clinical
52 evaluation and intervention if needed as required by s.
53 409.988(1)(b).
54 (4)
55 (b) The department shall collect and publish on its
56 website, and update monthly, the information required under s.
57 409.988(1)(l) s. 409.988(1)(k).
58 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================
59 And the title is amended as follows:
60 Delete everything before the enacting clause
61 and insert:
62 A bill to be entitled
63 An act relating to children removed from caregivers;
64 amending s. 409.988, F.S.; requiring community-based
65 care lead agencies, in coordination with the local
66 managing entity, to administer a trauma-focused
67 screening within a specified timeframe to children
68 removed from certain caregivers; specifying
69 requirements of the screening and therapy, if
70 recommended; requiring community-based care lead
71 agencies to offer voluntary trauma screening and
72 services under certain circumstances; amending s.
73 409.996, F.S.; requiring the Department of Children
74 and Families to require in its contracts with the
75 community-based care lead agencies that such agencies
76 and managing entities administer a trauma-focused
77 screening within a specified timeframe to children
78 removed from certain caregivers; conforming a cross
79 reference; providing an effective date.