Bill Text: FL H0673 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Crisis Stabilization Units
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-08 - Withdrawn from HHS Access Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee [H0673 Detail]
Download: Florida-2011-H0673-Introduced.html
HB 673 |
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2 | An act relating to crisis stabilization units; amending s. |
3 | 394.875, F.S.; increasing the number of client beds a |
4 | crisis stabilization unit is authorized to provide; |
5 | providing an effective date. |
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7 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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9 | Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section |
10 | 394.875, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: |
11 | 394.875 Crisis stabilization units, residential treatment |
12 | facilities, and residential treatment centers for children and |
13 | adolescents; authorized services; license required.- |
14 | (1)(a) The purpose of a crisis stabilization unit is to |
15 | stabilize and redirect a client to the most appropriate and |
16 | least restrictive community setting available, consistent with |
17 | the client's needs. Crisis stabilization units may screen, |
18 | assess, and admit for stabilization persons who present |
19 | themselves to the unit and persons who are brought to the unit |
20 | under s. 394.463. Clients may be provided 24-hour observation, |
21 | medication prescribed by a physician or psychiatrist, and other |
22 | appropriate services. Crisis stabilization units shall provide |
23 | services regardless of the client's ability to pay and shall be |
24 | limited in size to a maximum of 50 |
25 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011. |
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