Bill Amendment: FL S1064 | 2023 | Regular Session

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Bill Title: Trauma Screening for Children Removed from Caregivers

Status: 2023-06-16 - Chapter No. 2023-254 [S1064 Detail]

Download: Florida-2023-S1064-Senate_Committee_Amendment_713300.html

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       Florida Senate - 2023                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1064
       
       
       
       
       
       
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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.