Bill Amendment: FL S0496 | 2015 | Regular Session

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Guardians

Status: 2015-04-22 - Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 437 (Ch. 2015-112) [S0496 Detail]

Download: Florida-2015-S0496-Senate_Committee_Amendment_514250.html

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       Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 496
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Simmons) recommended the
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    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 137 and 138
    4  insert:
    5         Section 3. Paragraph (b) of subsection (5) of section
    6  393.065, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         393.065 Application and eligibility determination.—
    8         (5) Except as otherwise directed by law, beginning July 1,
    9  2010, the agency shall assign and provide priority to clients
   10  waiting for waiver services in the following order:
   11         (b)1. Category 2, which includes individuals children on
   12  the wait list who are from the child welfare system with an open
   13  case in the Department of Children and Families’ statewide
   14  automated child welfare information system who are:.
   15         a. Transitioning out of the child welfare system at the
   16  finalization of an adoption, a reunification with family
   17  members, a permanent placement with a relative, or a
   18  guardianship with a nonrelative;
   19         b. Between 18 and 22 years of age who need both waiver
   20  services and extended foster care services; or
   21         c. Between 18 and 22 years of age who withdraw consent
   22  pursuant to s. 39.6251(5)(c) to remain in the extended foster
   23  care system.
   24         2. For individuals dually served by the waiver services and
   25  the child welfare system, the agency shall provide waiver
   26  services that include residential habilitation. The department
   27  shall provide foster parent room and board as provided in s.
   28  409.145(4), case management, and other related services as
   29  defined in s. 409.986. Individuals may receive waiver services
   30  and services under s. 39.6251. Services provided by the agency
   31  or the department must not duplicate services that are available
   32  through the Medicaid state plan.
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   34  Within categories 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, the agency shall maintain a
   35  wait list of clients placed in the order of the date that the
   36  client is determined eligible for waiver services.
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   38  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   39  And the title is amended as follows:
   40         Delete line 20
   41  and insert:
   42         department to show cause; amending s. 393.065, F.S.;
   43         revising the eligibility determinations for waiver
   44         services for category 2; requiring the Agency for
   45         Persons with Disabilities and the Department of
   46         Children and Families to provide certain services
   47         under specified conditions; prohibiting certain
   48         services from duplicating services available through
   49         Medicaid; amending s. 393.12, F.S.;