Bill Amendment: FL S0966 | 2013 | Regular Session

Florida Senate Bill 966 (Prior Session Legislation)

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

Bill Title: Health Care

Status: 2013-05-03 - Died on Calendar, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 1071 (Ch. 2013-93), CS/CS/HB 1159 (Ch. 2013-153), SB 1520 (Ch. 2013-48) [S0966 Detail]

Download: Florida-2013-S0966-Senate_Floor_Amendment_778008.html

       Florida Senate - 2013                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 966
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Bean moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 2284 and 2285
    4  insert:
    5         Section 54. Paragraph (e) of subsection (5) of section
    6  409.175, Florida Statutes, is amended to read
    7         409.175 Licensure of family foster homes, residential
    8  child-caring agencies, and child-placing agencies; public
    9  records exemption.—
   10         (5)
   11         (e) The department shall not adopt rules which:
   12         1. Interfere with a caregiver’s authority to use the
   13  reasonable and prudent parent standard, as defined in s.
   14  39.4091(2)(c), as created by chapter 2013-21, Laws of Florida,
   15  to select a child care provider for the caregiver’s foster
   16  child, including a child care provider that is exempt from
   17  licensure under s. 402.316, if the child care provider is
   18  accredited by an accrediting association that has written
   19  accreditation standards that meet or exceed the state’s
   20  licensing requirements under s. 402.305, s. 402.3131, or s.
   21  402.313 and require at least one onsite visit to the child care
   22  provider before accreditation is granted and complies with the
   23  reporting requirements of the Rilya Wilson Act,s 39.604; or
   24         2. Interfere with the free exercise of religion or which
   25  regulate religious instruction or teachings in any child-caring
   26  or child-placing home or agency.;
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   28  However, this paragraph does not nothing herein shall be
   29  construed to allow religious instruction or teachings that are
   30  inconsistent with the health, safety, or well-being of any
   31  child; with public morality; or with the religious freedom of
   32  children, parents, or legal guardians who place their children
   33  in such homes or agencies.
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   36         And the title is amended as follows:
   37         Delete line 199
   38  and insert:
   39         screening provisions; amending s. 409.175, F.S.;
   40         prohibiting the department from adopting rules that
   41         interfere with a caregiver’s selection from among
   42         certain child care providers for a foster child;
   43         amending s. 409.9122, F.S.;