Florida Senate - 2024 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 330
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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02/14/2024 .
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The Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services (Boyd)
recommended the following:
1 Senate Amendment to Amendment (718326) (with title
2 amendment)
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4 Between lines 279 and 280
5 insert:
6 Section 7. For the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the sum of $1
7 million in nonrecurring funds from the General Revenue Fund is
8 appropriated to the Department of Children and Families to
9 contract for a detailed study of Florida’s forensic, voluntary
10 and involuntary civil commitment, and state inpatient
11 psychiatric program bed capacity as required pursuant to section
12 6 of this act. In order to solicit the expertise of and leverage
13 the partnerships developed between state universities and
14 behavioral health teaching hospitals, the study must include an
15 evaluation of the feasibility of increasing bed capacity for
16 civil commitments within nonstate entities.
17 Section 8. For the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the sum of $5
18 million in recurring funds from the General Revenue Fund is
19 appropriated to the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health
20 Institute for the operation of the Florida Center for Behavioral
21 Health Workforce as created by this act.
22 Section 9. For the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the sums of
23 $2,557,800 in recurring funds from the General Revenue Fund and
24 $3,442,200 in recurring funds from the Medical Care Trust Fund
25 are appropriated to the Agency for Health Care Administration
26 for the Slots for Doctors Program established in s. 409.909,
27 Florida Statutes. Each hospital is eligible to receive funding
28 for up to 10 newly created resident positions within each of the
29 pilot behavioral health teaching hospitals designated under part
30 VI of chapter 395, Florida Statutes, as created by this act.
31 Notwithstanding s. 409.909, Florida Statutes, the agency shall
32 allocate $150,000 for each newly created position.
33 Section 10. For the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the sum of $100
34 million in nonrecurring funds from the General Revenue Fund is
35 appropriated to the Grants and Donations Trust Fund in the
36 Designated Behavioral Health Teaching Hospitals Category for the
37 Department of Children and Families to develop and implement the
38 behavioral health teaching hospital model as created by this
39 act. The funds shall be provided to the pilot behavioral health
40 teaching hospitals designated under part VI of chapter 395,
41 Florida Statutes, as created by this act, to help meet the
42 criteria and requirements necessary for designation and may be
43 used for fixed capital outlay, such as facility upgrades, or
44 operations and expenses. The funds shall be placed in reserve.
45 The department is authorized pursuant to chapter 216, Florida
46 Statutes, to submit budget amendments requesting the release of
47 the funds. The release of the funds is contingent upon the
48 submission of an equitable allocation and detailed spending
49 plan, developed in consultation with the pilot behavioral health
50 teaching hospitals, which details the manner in which the funds
51 requested for release will be expended.
52 Section 11. For the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the sum of $2
53 million in recurring funds from the General Revenue Fund is
54 appropriated to the Agency for Health Care Administration to
55 implement the Training, Education, and Clinicals in Health
56 (TEACH) Funding Program established in s. 409.91256, Florida
57 Statutes, as created by SB 7016, 2024 Regular Session.
58 Notwithstanding s. 409.91256(5)(b), Florida Statutes, as created
59 by SB 7016, 2024 Regular Session, the funds appropriated
60 pursuant to this section shall be equitably distributed to the
61 pilot behavioral health teaching hospitals designated under part
62 VI of chapter 395, Florida Statutes, as created by this act.
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65 And the title is amended as follows:
66 Between lines 313 and 314
67 insert:
68 appropriations; providing