Bill Amendment: FL S0330 | 2024 | Regular Session

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Bill Title: Behavioral Health Teaching Hospitals

Status: 2024-03-22 - Chapter No. 2024-12 [S0330 Detail]

Download: Florida-2024-S0330-Senate_Committee_Amendment_495660_to_Amendment_718326_.html

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       Florida Senate - 2024                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 330
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services (Boyd)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (718326) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Between lines 279 and 280
    5  insert:
    6         Section 7. For the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the sum of $1
    7  million in nonrecurring funds from the General Revenue Fund is
    8  appropriated to the Department of Children and Families to
    9  contract for a detailed study of Florida’s forensic, voluntary
   10  and involuntary civil commitment, and state inpatient
   11  psychiatric program bed capacity as required pursuant to section
   12  6 of this act. In order to solicit the expertise of and leverage
   13  the partnerships developed between state universities and
   14  behavioral health teaching hospitals, the study must include an
   15  evaluation of the feasibility of increasing bed capacity for
   16  civil commitments within nonstate entities.
   17         Section 8. For the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the sum of $5
   18  million in recurring funds from the General Revenue Fund is
   19  appropriated to the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health
   20  Institute for the operation of the Florida Center for Behavioral
   21  Health Workforce as created by this act.
   22         Section 9. For the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the sums of
   23  $2,557,800 in recurring funds from the General Revenue Fund and
   24  $3,442,200 in recurring funds from the Medical Care Trust Fund
   25  are appropriated to the Agency for Health Care Administration
   26  for the Slots for Doctors Program established in s. 409.909,
   27  Florida Statutes. Each hospital is eligible to receive funding
   28  for up to 10 newly created resident positions within each of the
   29  pilot behavioral health teaching hospitals designated under part
   30  VI of chapter 395, Florida Statutes, as created by this act.
   31  Notwithstanding s. 409.909, Florida Statutes, the agency shall
   32  allocate $150,000 for each newly created position.
   33         Section 10. For the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the sum of $100
   34  million in nonrecurring funds from the General Revenue Fund is
   35  appropriated to the Grants and Donations Trust Fund in the
   36  Designated Behavioral Health Teaching Hospitals Category for the
   37  Department of Children and Families to develop and implement the
   38  behavioral health teaching hospital model as created by this
   39  act. The funds shall be provided to the pilot behavioral health
   40  teaching hospitals designated under part VI of chapter 395,
   41  Florida Statutes, as created by this act, to help meet the
   42  criteria and requirements necessary for designation and may be
   43  used for fixed capital outlay, such as facility upgrades, or
   44  operations and expenses. The funds shall be placed in reserve.
   45  The department is authorized pursuant to chapter 216, Florida
   46  Statutes, to submit budget amendments requesting the release of
   47  the funds. The release of the funds is contingent upon the
   48  submission of an equitable allocation and detailed spending
   49  plan, developed in consultation with the pilot behavioral health
   50  teaching hospitals, which details the manner in which the funds
   51  requested for release will be expended.
   52         Section 11. For the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the sum of $2
   53  million in recurring funds from the General Revenue Fund is
   54  appropriated to the Agency for Health Care Administration to
   55  implement the Training, Education, and Clinicals in Health
   56  (TEACH) Funding Program established in s. 409.91256, Florida
   57  Statutes, as created by SB 7016, 2024 Regular Session.
   58  Notwithstanding s. 409.91256(5)(b), Florida Statutes, as created
   59  by SB 7016, 2024 Regular Session, the funds appropriated
   60  pursuant to this section shall be equitably distributed to the
   61  pilot behavioral health teaching hospitals designated under part
   62  VI of chapter 395, Florida Statutes, as created by this act.
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   65  And the title is amended as follows:
   66         Between lines 313 and 314
   67  insert:
   68         appropriations; providing