Senate Bill sb2648

    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 2648

    By Senator Hill





    1-1789-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Assisted Living

  3         Facilities Trainer Program; requiring the

  4         Secretaries of Elderly Affairs and Health Care

  5         Administration to enter an interdepartmental

  6         transfer agreement to transfer the program from

  7         the Department of Elderly Affairs to the Agency

  8         for Health Care Administration; expanding the

  9         scope of the program and renaming it; providing

10         a timetable; providing for an advisory

11         workgroup; requiring a report; providing an

12         effective date.

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14         WHEREAS, the Department of Elderly Affairs commissioned

15  a report from the Pepper Institute to determine whether the

16  department's Assisted Living Facilities Trainer Program should

17  be privatized, and

18         WHEREAS, the report stated that the program was

19  cost-effective and should be retained by the department, and

20         WHEREAS, the transfer of the training program is

21  logical in that the agency already has a state substructure in

22  place and participates in training activities, and

23         WHEREAS, the department has indicated that it would

24  recommend privatization of the program, the findings of the

25  Pepper Institute notwithstanding, NOW, THEREFORE,

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27  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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29         Section 1.  The Secretary of Elderly Affairs and the

30  Secretary of Health Care Administration shall enter into an

31  interdepartmental transfer agreement under which all powers,

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 2648
    1-1789-03




 1  duties, functions, rules, records, personal property, and

 2  unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other

 3  funds that relate to the Assisted Living Facilities Trainer

 4  Program of the Department of Elderly Affairs are transferred

 5  to the Agency for Health Care Administration. The program is

 6  renamed the Florida Caregivers Institute, and the mission of

 7  the program is expanded to include the development of an

 8  expanded number of training programs designed to increase best

 9  practice for long-term care caregivers and encourage the

10  development of paraprofessionals in the area of long-term

11  care. The transfer shall be conducted with the assistance of

12  an advisory workgroup consisting of a consumer representative,

13  a consumer advocate, and the owner of an assisted living

14  facility appointed by the Secretary of Elderly Affairs and a

15  consumer representative, a consumer advocate, and the owner of

16  an assisted living facility appointed by the Secretary of

17  Health Care Administration as soon as practicable after the

18  effective date of this act. The transfer agreement shall be

19  completed by July 2003 and the transfer of the program shall

20  be completed by January 1, 2004. The workgroup shall report to

21  the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of

22  the House of Representatives before the beginning of the 2004

23  Regular Session of the Legislature concerning the transfer.

24         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

25  law.

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28                          SENATE SUMMARY

29    Requires an interagency transfer agreement to transfer
      the Assisted Living Facilities Trainer Program from the
30    Department of Elderly Affairs to the Agency for Health
      Care Administration by January 1, 2004.
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