Florida Senate - 2009                                     SB 892
       
       
       
       By Senator Bennett
       
       
       
       
       21-00622A-09                                           2009892__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to mental health and substance abuse
    3         services; creating s. 394.4996, F.S.; authorizing the
    4         Agency for Health Care Administration to license
    5         facilities that provide services as an integrated
    6         adult mental health crisis stabilization unit and
    7         addictions receiving facility; providing eligibility
    8         criteria for treatment services; requiring the
    9         Department of Children and Family Services to adopt
   10         rules; providing an effective date.
   11         
   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Section 394.4996, Florida Statutes, is created
   15  to read:
   16         394.4996 Integrated adult mental health crisis
   17  stabilization and addictions receiving facilities.—
   18         (1) The Agency for Health Care Administration, in
   19  consultation with the Department of Children and Family
   20  Services, may license facilities that integrate services
   21  provided in an adult mental health crisis stabilization unit
   22  with services provided in an adult addictions receiving
   23  facility. Such a facility shall be licensed by the agency as an
   24  adult crisis stabilization unit under part IV and must meet all
   25  licensure requirements for crisis stabilization units providing
   26  integrated services.
   27         (2) An integrated mental health crisis stabilization unit
   28  and addictions receiving facility may provide services under
   29  this section to adults who are 18 years of age or older and who
   30  fall into one or more of the following categories:
   31         (a) An adult meeting the requirements for voluntary
   32  admission for mental health treatment under s. 394.4625.
   33         (b) An adult meeting the criteria for involuntary
   34  examination for mental illness under s. 394.463.
   35         (c) An adult qualifying for voluntary admission for
   36  substance abuse treatment under s. 397.601.
   37         (d) An adult meeting the criteria for involuntary admission
   38  for substance abuse impairment under s. 397.675.
   39         (3) The department, in consultation with the agency, shall
   40  adopt by rule standards that address eligibility criteria;
   41  clinical procedures; staffing requirements; operational,
   42  administrative, and financing requirements; and the
   43  investigation of complaints.
   44         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.