Bill Amendment: FL S7070 | 2015 | Regular Session

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Status: 2015-05-01 - Died on Calendar, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 79 (Ch. 2015-102), CS/CS/HB 335 (Ch. 2015-111), CS/SB 954 (Ch. 2015-67) [S7070 Detail]

Download: Florida-2015-S7070-Senate_Committee_Amendment_652122.html

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       Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 7070
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Bean) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 1335 and 1336
    4  insert:
    5         Section 8. Subsection (2) and paragraph (a) of subsection
    6  (4) of section 381.0056, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
    7         381.0056 School health services program.—
    8         (2) As used in this section, the term:
    9         (a) “Emergency health needs” means onsite evaluation,
   10  management, and aid for illness or injury pending the student’s
   11  return to the classroom or release to a parent, guardian,
   12  designated friend, law enforcement officer, or designated health
   13  care provider.
   14         (b) “Entity” or “health care entity” means a unit of local
   15  government or a political subdivision of the state; a hospital
   16  licensed under chapter 395; a health maintenance organization
   17  certified under chapter 641; a health insurer authorized under
   18  the Florida Insurance Code; a community health center; a migrant
   19  health center; a federally qualified health center; an
   20  organization that meets the requirements for nonprofit status
   21  under s. 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; a private
   22  industry or business; or a philanthropic foundation that agrees
   23  to participate in a public-private partnership with a county
   24  health department, local school district, or school in the
   25  delivery of school health services, and agrees to the terms and
   26  conditions for the delivery of such services as required by this
   27  section and as documented in the local school health services
   28  plan.
   29         (c) “Invasive screening” means any screening procedure in
   30  which the skin or any body orifice is penetrated.
   31         (d) “Physical examination” means a thorough evaluation of
   32  the health status of an individual.
   33         (e) “School health services plan” means the document that
   34  describes the services to be provided, the responsibility for
   35  provision of the services, the anticipated expenditures to
   36  provide the services, and evidence of cooperative planning by
   37  local school districts and county health departments.
   38         (f) “Screening” means presumptive identification of unknown
   39  or unrecognized diseases or defects by the application of tests
   40  that can be given with ease and rapidity to apparently healthy
   41  persons.
   42         (4)(a) Each county health department shall develop, jointly
   43  with the district school board and the local school health
   44  advisory committee, a school health services plan.; and The plan
   45  must include, at a minimum, provisions for all of the following:
   46         1. Health appraisal;
   47         2. Records review;
   48         3. Nurse assessment;
   49         4. Nutrition assessment;
   50         5. A preventive dental program;
   51         6. Vision screening;
   52         7. Hearing screening;
   53         8. Scoliosis screening;
   54         9. Growth and development screening;
   55         10. Health counseling;
   56         11. Referral and followup of suspected or confirmed health
   57  problems by the local county health department;
   58         12. Meeting emergency health needs in each school;
   59         13. County health department personnel to assist school
   60  personnel in health education curriculum development;
   61         14. Referral of students to appropriate health treatment,
   62  in cooperation with the private health community whenever
   63  possible;
   64         15. Consultation with a student’s parent or guardian
   65  regarding the need for health attention by the family physician,
   66  dentist, or other specialist when definitive diagnosis or
   67  treatment is indicated;
   68         16. Maintenance of records on incidents of health problems,
   69  corrective measures taken, and such other information as may be
   70  needed to plan and evaluate health programs; except, however,
   71  that provisions in the plan for maintenance of health records of
   72  individual students must be in accordance with s. 1002.22;
   73         17. Health information which will be provided by the school
   74  health nurses, when necessary, regarding the placement of
   75  students in exceptional student programs and the reevaluation at
   76  periodic intervals of students placed in such programs; and
   77         18. Notification to the local nonpublic schools of the
   78  school health services program and the opportunity for
   79  representatives of the local nonpublic schools to participate in
   80  the development of the cooperative health services plan.
   81         19. Immediate notification to a student’s parent, guardian,
   82  or caregiver if the student is removed from school, school
   83  transportation, or a school-sponsored activity and taken to a
   84  receiving facility for an involuntary examination pursuant to s.
   85  394.463, including any requirements established under ss.
   86  1002.20(3) and 1002.33(9), as applicable.
   87  
   88  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   89  And the title is amended as follows:
   90         Delete line 44
   91  and insert:
   92         advocates; amending s. 381.0056, F.S.; revising the
   93         definition of the term “emergency health needs”;
   94         requiring school health services plans to include
   95         notification requirements when a student is removed
   96         from school, school transportation, or a school
   97         sponsored activity for involuntary examination;
   98         amending s. 394.4599, F.S.; adding health