Florida Senate - 2024                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 306
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  01/29/2024           .                                
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       The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Harrell)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 157 - 194
    4  and insert:
    5         care lead licensed child-placing agency or alternatively
    6  contact the statewide central abuse hotline for the community
    7  based care lead agency contact information name of a licensed
    8  child-placing agency for purposes of transferring physical
    9  custody of the newborn infant. The hospital shall notify the
   10  community-based care lead licensed child-placing agency that a
   11  newborn infant has been left with the hospital and approximately
   12  when the community-based care lead licensed child-placing agency
   13  can take physical custody of the child. In cases where there is
   14  actual or suspected child abuse or neglect, the hospital or any
   15  of its licensed health care professionals shall report the
   16  actual or suspected child abuse or neglect in accordance with
   17  ss. 39.201 and 395.1023 in lieu of contacting the local
   18  community-based care lead a licensed child-placing agency.
   19         Section 5. Paragraph (e) of subsection (3) of section
   20  39.201, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   21         39.201 Required reports of child abuse, abandonment, or
   22  neglect, sexual abuse of a child, and juvenile sexual abuse;
   23  required reports of death; reports involving a child who has
   24  exhibited inappropriate sexual behavior.—
   25         (3) ADDITIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES RELATED TO REPORTS.—
   26         (e) Surrendered newborn infants.—
   27         1. The central abuse hotline must receive reports involving
   28  surrendered newborn infants as described in s. 383.50.
   29         2.a. A report may not be considered a report of child
   30  abuse, abandonment, or neglect solely because the infant has
   31  been left at a hospital, emergency medical services station, or
   32  fire station under s. 383.50.
   33         b. If the report involving a surrendered newborn infant
   34  does not include indications of child abuse, abandonment, or
   35  neglect other than that necessarily entailed in the infant
   36  having been left at a hospital, emergency medical services
   37  station, or fire station, the central abuse hotline must provide
   38  to the person making the report the name of the local community
   39  based care lead agency an eligible licensed child-placing agency
   40  that is required to accept physical custody of and to place
   41  surrendered newborn infants. The department shall provide names
   42  of eligible licensed child-placing agencies on a rotating basis.