Florida Senate - 2023                                     SB 898
       
       
        
       By Senator Torres
       
       
       
       
       
       25-01858-23                                            2023898__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the Social Services Estimating
    3         Conference; amending s. 216.136, F.S.; requiring the
    4         Social Services Estimating Conference to develop
    5         specified information relating to the home-based and
    6         community-based Medicaid waiver services program;
    7         providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Paragraph (c) is added to subsection (6) of
   12  section 216.136, Florida Statutes, to read:
   13         216.136 Consensus estimating conferences; duties and
   14  principals.—
   15         (6) SOCIAL SERVICES ESTIMATING CONFERENCE.—
   16         (c) The Social Services Estimating Conference shall develop
   17  information relating to the iBudget system for the home-based
   18  and community-based Medicaid waiver services program and must
   19  include iBudget enrollment, the number of current waiver
   20  recipients, the size of the waiting list, the utilization rate
   21  of program services, and expenditure information that the
   22  conference determines is needed to plan for and project future
   23  budgets and the drawdown of federal matching funds.
   24         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.