Florida Senate - 2025                                     SB 862
       
       
        
       By Senator Smith
       
       
       
       
       
       17-00984-25                                            2025862__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the Social Services Estimating
    3         Conference; amending s. 216.136, F.S.; requiring the
    4         Social Services Estimating Conference to develop
    5         specified information related to the home and
    6         community-based services Medicaid waiver program;
    7         providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Paragraph (c) is added to subsection (6) of
   12  section 216.136, Florida Statutes, to read:
   13         216.136 Consensus estimating conferences; duties and
   14  principals.—
   15         (6) SOCIAL SERVICES ESTIMATING CONFERENCE.—
   16         (c) The Social Services Estimating Conference shall develop
   17  information related to the iBudget system for the home and
   18  community-based services Medicaid waiver program which must
   19  include iBudget enrollment, the number of current waiver
   20  recipients, the size of the waiting list, the utilization rate
   21  of program services, and expenditure information that the
   22  conference determines is needed to plan for and project future
   23  budgets and the drawdown of federal matching funds.
   24         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.