Florida Senate - 2009 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS/SB 910, 1st Eng.
Barcode 594564
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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Floor: 2/AD/3R .
05/01/2009 03:01 PM .
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Senator Crist moved the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Between lines 730 and 731
4 insert:
5 Section 7. Paragraph (e) is added to subsection (1) of
6 section 985.441, Florida Statutes, to read:
7 985.441 Commitment.—
8 (1) The court that has jurisdiction of an adjudicated
9 delinquent child may, by an order stating the facts upon which a
10 determination of a sanction and rehabilitative program was made
11 at the disposition hearing:
12 (e) Commit the child to the department for placement in a
13 mother-infant program designed to serve the needs of the
14 juvenile mothers or expectant juvenile mothers who are committed
15 as delinquents. The department’s mother-infant program must be
16 licensed as a child care facility in accordance with s. 402.308,
17 and must provide the services and support necessary to enable
18 the committed juvenile mothers to provide for the needs of their
19 infants who, upon agreement of the mother, may accompany them in
20 the program. The department shall adopt rules to govern the
21 operation of such programs.
22 Section 8. Subsection (2) of section 985.601, Florida
23 Statutes, is amended to read:
24 985.601 Administering the juvenile justice continuum.—
25 (2)(a) The department shall develop and implement an
26 appropriate continuum of care that provides individualized,
27 multidisciplinary assessments, objective evaluations of relative
28 risks, and the matching of needs with placements for all
29 children under its care, and that uses a system of case
30 management to facilitate each child being appropriately
31 assessed, provided with services, and placed in a program that
32 meets the child’s needs.
33 (b) The department shall adopt rules to ensure the
34 effective delivery of services to children in the department’s
35 care and custody. The rules must address the delivery of:
36 1. Ordinary medical care in department facilities and
37 programs;
38 2. Mental health services in department facilities and
39 programs;
40 3. Substance abuse treatment services in department
41 facilities and programs; and
42 4. Services to children with developmental disabilities in
43 department facilities and programs.
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45 The department shall coordinate its rulemaking with the
46 Department of Children and Family Services and the Agency for
47 Persons with Disabilities to ensure that the rules adopted under
48 this section do not encroach upon the substantive jurisdiction
49 of those agencies. The department shall include the above
50 mentioned entities in the rulemaking process, as appropriate.
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53 And the title is amended as follows:
54 Delete line 32
55 and insert:
56 criminal history record sealed or expunged; amending
57 s. 985.441, F.S.; providing that a court may commit a
58 female child adjudicated as delinquent to the
59 department for placement in a mother-infant program
60 designed to serve the needs of the juvenile mothers or
61 expectant juvenile mothers who are committed as
62 delinquents; requiring the department to adopt rules
63 to govern the operation of the mother-infant program;
64 amending s. 985.601, F.S.; requiring that the
65 department adopt rules to ensure the effective
66 delivery of services to children in the care and
67 custody of the department; requiring the department to
68 coordinate its rule-adoption process with the
69 Department of Children and Family Services and the
70 Agency for Persons with Disabilities; providing