Florida Senate - 2014                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. HB 5003
       
       
       
       
       
       
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    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
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    6         ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================And the title is amended as follows:Delete everything before the enacting clauseand insert:A bill to be entitledAn act relating to implementing the General Appropriations Act; providing legislative intent; incorporating by reference certain calculations of the Florida Education Finance Program for the 2014-2015 fiscal year; providing that funds for instructional materials shall be released and expended as required in specified proviso language, notwithstanding other provisions of law; amending s. 1011.62, F.S.; increasing the number of schools eligible for categorical funding for supplemental academic instruction and for the research-based reading instruction allocation; suspending for the 2014-2015 fiscal year a provision authorizing the Legislature to provide a virtual education contribution to the Florida Education Finance Program; amending s. 1002.32, F.S.; requiring that eligible lab schools that have a permanent high school center receive a proportional share of the sparsity supplement; amending s. 1013.64, F.S.; revising the basis for allocating fixed-capital outlay funds for existing satisfactory facilities; incorporating by reference certain calculations of the Medicaid Low-Income Pool and Disproportionate Share Hospital programs for the 2014-2015 fiscal year; providing requirements governing the continuation of the Department of Health’s Florida Onsite Sewage Nitrogen Reduction Strategies Study; specifying certain prohibitions before completion of the study; prioritizing which categories of individuals on the Agency for Persons with Disabilities wait list will be offered a slot on the Medicaid home and community-based waiver programs; allowing an individual to continue receiving waiver services if his or her parent or guardian is an active-duty service member transferred to Florida; providing that individuals remaining on the wait list are not entitled to an administrative proceeding; prohibiting behavioral health managing entities contracting with the Department of Children and Families from conducting provider network procurements during the 2014-2015 fiscal year; amending s. 216.262, F.S.; authorizing the Department of Corrections to submit a budget amendment for additional positions to operate additional prison bed capacity under certain circumstances; authorizing the Department of Legal Affairs to spend certain appropriated funds on programs that were funded by the department from specific appropriations in general appropriations acts in previous years; requiring the Department of Juvenile Justice to comply with specified reimbursement limitations with respect to payments to hospitals or health care providers for health care services; authorizing certain payments pursuant to a contracted rate only until the contract expires or is renewed; defining the term “hospital” for purposes of such limitations; directing the Department of Management Services to use a tenant broker to renegotiate or reprocure leases for office or storage space and provide a report to the Legislature; reenacting s. 624.502, F.S., relating to a requirement that fees for service of process upon the Chief Financial Officer or Office of Insurance Regulation be deposited into the Administrative Trust Fund; amending s. 161.143, F.S.; providing an allocation in the General Appropriations Act for inlet management funding; amending s. 216.181, F.S.; authorizing the Legislative Budget Commission to increase amounts appropriated to the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission or the Department of Environmental Protection for fixed capital outlay projects; amending s. 259.032, F.S.; authorizing the transfer of moneys in the Conservation and Recreation Lands Trust Fund to the Save Our Everglades Trust Fund to support certain Everglades restoration projects; amending s. 375.041, F.S.; providing for the transfer of moneys from the Land Acquisition Trust Fund to support the Total Maximum Daily Loads Program; providing for the transfer of moneys in the Land Acquisition Trust Fund to the Save Our Everglades Trust Fund to support certain Everglades restoration projects; amending s. 373.59, F.S.; revising the allocation of moneys from the Water Management Lands Trust Fund; authorizing specified funds to be deposited into the Save Our Everglades Trust Fund to support certain Everglades restoration projects; amending s. 376.30711, F.S.; requiring that all task assignments, work orders, and contracts for providers under the Petroleum Restoration Program must meet certain requirements; amending s. 403.7095, F.S.; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to award a specified amount in grants to certain counties for solid waste programs; authorizing the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to pay a bounty for captured and destroyed lionfish; amending s. 339.135, F.S.; authorizing the Department of Transportation to use appropriated funds to support the establishment of a statewide system of interconnected multiuse trails and related facilities; amending s. 335.065, F.S.; authorizing the Department of Transportation to use certain funds to support the establishment of a statewide system of interconnected multiuse trails and related facilities; providing criteria for prioritizing trail projects; providing for the reversion of unobligated funds appropriated for certain transportation and economic development projects; prohibiting a state agency from initiating a competitive solicitation for a product or service under certain circumstances; authorizing the Executive Office of the Governor to transfer funds between departments for purposes of aligning amounts paid for risk management premiums and for purposes of aligning amounts paid for human resource management services; amending s. 112.24, F.S.; providing conditions on the assignment of an employee of a state agency; providing that the annual salary of the members of the Legislature be maintained at a specified level; reenacting s. 215.32(2)(b), F.S., relating to the source and use of certain trust funds; providing a legislative determination that the issuance of new debt is in the best interests of the state and necessary to address a critical state emergency; limiting the use of travel funds to activities that are critical to an agency’s mission; providing exceptions; authorizing certain agencies to request the transfer of resources between Data Processing Services appropriation categories and appropriation categories for operation based upon changes to the data center services consolidation schedule; authorizing the Executive Office of the Governor to transfer funds for use by the state’s designated primary data centers; prohibiting an agency from transferring funds from a data processing category to another category; reenacting and amending s. 110.12315(2)(b) and (7)(a), F.S., relating to the state employee prescription drug program; updating provisions specifying copayment amounts; providing for the effect of a veto of one or more specific appropriations or proviso to which implementing language refers; providing for the continued operation of certain provisions notwithstanding a future repeal or expiration provided by this act; providing for severability; providing effective dates.