Florida Senate - 2018                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1156
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education (Perry)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 18 - 51
    4  and insert:
    5  known as “Project Leo,” through regional autism centers
    6  established under s. 1004.55. Each center that opts to join the
    7  pilot project shall distribute to provide personal devices to
    8  aid search-and-rescue efforts for persons with special needs in
    9  the case of elopement.
   10         (b) There is created an additional pilot project in Palm
   11  Beach County to provide personal devices to aid search-and
   12  rescue efforts for persons with special needs in the case of
   13  elopement.
   14         (c) There is created an additional pilot project in
   15  Hillsborough County to provide personal devices to aid search
   16  and-rescue efforts for persons with special needs in the case of
   17  elopement.
   18         (2)(a)1. Participants for the pilot project specified in
   19  paragraph (1)(a) shall be selected based on criteria developed
   20  by each participating center based on the specific needs of that
   21  center’s service area counties prescribed under s. 1004.55 the
   22  Center for Autism and Related Disabilities at the University of
   23  Florida.
   24         2. Participants for the pilot project specified in
   25  paragraph (1)(b) shall be selected based on criteria developed
   26  by the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities at Florida
   27  Atlantic University.
   28         3. Participants for the pilot project specified in
   29  paragraph (1)(c) shall be selected based on criteria developed
   30  by the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities at the
   31  University of South Florida.
   32         (b) Criteria for participation in the pilot project
   33  projects must include, at a minimum, the person’s risk of
   34  elopement. The qualifying participants shall be selected on a
   35  first-come, first-served basis by the respective centers to the
   36  extent of available funding within their existing resources. The
   37  Each project must be voluntary and free of charge to
   38  participants.
   39         (3) Under the each pilot project, personal devices to aid
   40  search-and-rescue efforts which are attachable to clothing or
   41  otherwise worn shall be provided by the respective center to the
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   44  And the title is amended as follows:
   45         Delete lines 4 - 6
   46  and insert:
   47         for missing persons with special needs to the regional
   48         autism centers; requiring each center that opts to
   49         join the pilot project to distribute personal devices
   50         under certain circumstances; revising the requirements
   51         for personal devices used in the pilot project;
   52         conforming provisions to