Senate Bill sb1370c1

    Florida Senate - 2006                           CS for SB 1370

    By the Committee on Domestic Security; and Senator Saunders





    583-1883-06

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Veterans' Nursing Home

  3         of Florida Act; amending s. 296.36, F.S.;

  4         authorizing the director of the Department of

  5         Veterans' Affairs to waive the residency

  6         requirement for admittance to a veterans'

  7         nursing home under certain circumstances;

  8         providing an effective date.

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

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12         Section 1.  Section 296.36, Florida Statutes, is

13  amended to read:

14         296.36  Eligibility and priority of admittance.--

15         (1)  To be eligible for admittance to the home, the

16  person must be a veteran as defined in s. 1.01(14) and must:

17         (a)  Be in need of nursing home care.

18         (b)  Have been a resident of the state for 1 year

19  immediately preceding, and at the time of application for,

20  admission to the home.

21         (c)  Not owe money to the department for services

22  rendered during any previous stay at a department facility.

23         (d)  Have applied for all financial assistance

24  reasonably available through governmental sources.

25         (2)  The director may waive the residency requirement

26  for a veteran who is otherwise eligible under Florida law for

27  admittance to a home. The waiver must be limited to a veteran

28  who is a disaster evacuee of a state that is under a declared

29  state of emergency.

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    Florida Senate - 2006                           CS for SB 1370
    583-1883-06




 1         (3)(2)  Admittance priority must be given to eligible

 2  veterans afforded in the following order of priority to an

 3  eligible veteran who is in need of nursing home care and who:

 4         (a)  An eligible veteran who is a resident of the State

 5  of Florida.

 6         (b)(a)  An eligible veteran who has a service-connected

 7  disability as determined by the United States Department of

 8  Veterans Affairs, or was discharged or released from military

 9  service for disability incurred or aggravated in the line of

10  duty and the disability is the condition for which nursing

11  home care is needed.

12         (c)(b)  An eligible veteran who has a

13  non-service-connected disability and is unable to defray the

14  expense of nursing home care and so states under oath before a

15  notary public or other officer authorized to administer an

16  oath.

17         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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19          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
20                              SB1370

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