SENATE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for CS for SB 1202, 2nd Eng.
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CHAMBER ACTION
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11 Senator Horne moved the following amendment to amendment
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 68. Section 413.402, Florida Statutes, is
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20 413.402 Personal care attendant pilot program.--The
21 Florida Association of Centers for Independent Living shall
22 develop a pilot program to provide personal care attendants to
23 persons who are eligible pursuant to subsection (1). The
24 association shall develop memorandums of understanding with
25 the Department of Revenue, the Brain and Spinal Cord Injury
26 Program in the Department of Health, the Florida Medicaid
27 program in the Agency for Health Care Administration, the
28 Florida Endowment Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation,
29 and the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the
30 Department of Education.
31 (1) Persons eligible to participate in the pilot
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1 program must:
2 (a) Be at least 18 years of age and be significantly
3 disabled due to a traumatic spinal cord injury;
4 (b) Have been determined eligible for training
5 services from the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the
6 Department of Education; and
7 (c) Either:
8 1. Live in a nursing home; or
9 2. Have moved out of a nursing home within the
10 preceding 180 days due to participation in a Medicaid home and
11 community-based waiver program targeted to persons with brain
12 or spinal cord injuries.
13 (2) The association shall develop a training program
14 for training persons selected to participate in the pilot
15 program that will prepare each person to manage his or her own
16 personal care attendant.
17 (3) The association, in cooperation with the Florida
18 Endowment Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation, shall
19 develop a program to recruit, screen, and select candidates to
20 be trained as personal care attendants.
21 (4) The association, in cooperation with the Florida
22 Endowment Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation, shall
23 develop a training program for personal care attendants.
24 (5) The association, in cooperation with the Florida
25 Endowment Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation, shall
26 establish procedures for selecting persons eligible under
27 subsection (1) to participate in the pilot program.
28 (6) The association, in cooperation with the Division
29 of Vocational Rehabilitation of the Department of Education,
30 shall assess the selected participants and make
31 recommendations for their placement into appropriate
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1 work-related training programs.
2 (7) The association, in cooperation with the
3 Department of Revenue, the Brain and Spinal Cord Injury
4 Program in the Department of Health, the Florida Medicaid
5 program in the Agency for Health Care Administration, a
6 representative from the state attorney's office in each of the
7 counties participating in the pilot program, the Florida
8 Endowment Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation, and the
9 Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the Department of
10 Education, shall develop a plan for implementation of the
11 pilot program.
12 (8) No later than March 1, 2002, the association shall
13 present to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of
14 the House of Representatives the implementation plan for the
15 pilot program, a timeline for implementation, estimates of the
16 number of participants to be served, and cost projections for
17 each component of the pilot program. The pilot program shall
18 be implemented beginning July 1, 2002, unless there is
19 specific legislative action to the contrary.
20 Section 69. The Department of Revenue, in coordination
21 with the the Florida Association of Centers for Independent
22 Living and the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association,
23 shall select four counties in which to operate the pilot
24 program. The association and the state attorneys' offices in
25 Duval County and the other pilot counties shall develop and
26 implement a tax collection enforcement diversion program which
27 shall collect revenue due from persons who have not remitted
28 their collected sales tax. The criteria for referral to the
29 tax collection enforcement diversion program shall be
30 determined cooperatively between the state attorneys' offices
31 in those counties and the Department of Revenue.
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1 (1) Twenty-five percent of the revenues collected from
2 the tax collection enforcement diversion program shall be
3 deposited into the operating account of the Florida Endowment
4 Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation, to be used to
5 implement the personal care attendant pilot program.
6 (2) The pilot program shall operate only from funds
7 deposited into the operating account of the Florida Endowment
8 Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation.
9 (3) The Revenue Estimating Conference shall annually
10 project the amount of funds expected to be generated from the
11 tax collection enforcement diversion program.
12 Section 70. Section 18 of chapter 99-144, Laws of
13 Florida, is amended to read:
14 Section 18. From the lump sum appropriated for
15 developmental services in the 1999-2000 General Appropriations
16 Act, the Department of Children and Family Services shall
17 design a system of providing services for persons with
18 developmental disabilities which provides a consumer-directed,
19 choice-based system. The department shall institute at least
20 one, but not more than three, differently structured pilot
21 programs to test a payment model in which the consumer
22 controls the money that is available for his or her care. The
23 department shall report its progress under this section to the
24 appropriate legislative committees by December 1, 2000, and
25 December 1, 2001, and December 1, 2002. This section is
26 repealed July 1, 2003 2002, and shall be reviewed by the
27 Legislature prior to that date.
28 Section 71. There is appropriated from the Brain and
29 Spinal Cord Injury Program Trust Fund to the Florida Endowment
30 Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation the sum of $250,000
31 in nonrecurring funds for fiscal year 2001-2002 for
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1 development of the personal care attendant pilot program under
2 s. 413.402, Florida Statutes. The initial $50,000 from each of
3 the pilot counties deposited with The Florida Endowment
4 Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation shall be used to
5 repay the $250,000 to the Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program
6 Trust Fund.
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12 And the title is amended as follows:
13 On page 139, line 27, after the semicolon,
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16 creating s. 413.402, F.S.; directing the
17 Florida Association of Centers for Independent
18 Living to develop a personal care attendant
19 pilot program to serve persons with spinal cord
20 injuries; providing for memorandums of
21 understanding with specified entities;
22 providing eligibility for pilot program
23 participation; providing for selection and
24 training of participants and personal care
25 attendants; providing for assessment of
26 participants for work-related training
27 programs; providing for development of a plan
28 for program implementation; requiring a report
29 to the Legislature; providing for
30 implementation on a specified date; directing
31 the Department of Revenue to develop and
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1 implement a tax collection enforcement
2 diversion program; providing for coordination
3 with the Florida Association of Centers for
4 Independent Living, the Florida Prosecuting
5 Attorneys Association, and the state attorneys'
6 offices; providing for deposit and use of funds
7 collected; directing the Revenue Estimating
8 Conference to make certain annual projections;
9 amending s. 18 of ch. 99-144, Laws of Florida;
10 extending repeal date of a developmental
11 disabilities pilot program; requiring an
12 additional report; providing an appropriation;
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