Bill Text: FL S7048 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

Florida Senate Bill 7048 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Developmental Disabilities

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2015-05-01 - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services [S7048 Detail]

Download: Florida-2015-S7048-Introduced.html

       Florida Senate - 2015                                    SB 7048
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
       
       
       
       
       
       586-02207-15                                          20157048__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to developmental disabilities;
    3         amending s. 393.065, F.S.; requiring the Agency for
    4         Persons with Disabilities to revise the priority order
    5         for the waiver services for specified children which
    6         are otherwise not available to them; establishing
    7         requirements for children and certain young adults
    8         with a category 2 priority; removing an obsolete
    9         provision; providing an effective date.
   10          
   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   12  
   13         Section 1. Subsection (5) of section 393.065, Florida
   14  Statutes, is amended to read:
   15         393.065 Application and eligibility determination.—
   16         (5) Except as otherwise directed by law, beginning July 1,
   17  2010, the agency shall assign and provide priority to clients
   18  waiting for waiver services in the following order:
   19         (a) Category 1, which includes clients deemed to be in
   20  crisis as described in rule.
   21         (b) Category 2, which includes children on the wait list
   22  who are from the child welfare system. The agency shall provide
   23  to children in category 2 waiver services that are not otherwise
   24  available to them through the child welfare system’s related
   25  services as defined in s. 409.986 or the state Medicaid plan. In
   26  addition, the agency shall provide residential habilitation
   27  services, such as supervision and training to assist the
   28  individual improve skills related to activities of daily living,
   29  to young adults in the child welfare system ages 18 to 21.
   30  Children in category 2 must be those with an open case in the
   31  Department of Children and Families’ statewide automated child
   32  welfare information system and who are:
   33         1. Transitioning out of the child welfare system at the
   34  finalization of an adoption, a reunification with family
   35  members, a permanent placement with a relative, or a
   36  guardianship with a nonrelative; or
   37         2. Determined to be 18 to 21 years of age.
   38         (c) Category 3, which includes, but is not required to be
   39  limited to, clients:
   40         1. Whose caregiver has a documented condition that is
   41  expected to render the caregiver unable to provide care within
   42  the next 12 months and for whom a caregiver is required but no
   43  alternate caregiver is available;
   44         2. At substantial risk of incarceration or court commitment
   45  without supports;
   46         3. Whose documented behaviors or physical needs place them
   47  or their caregiver at risk of serious harm and other supports
   48  are not currently available to alleviate the situation; or
   49         4. Who are identified as ready for discharge within the
   50  next year from a state mental health hospital or skilled nursing
   51  facility and who require a caregiver but for whom no caregiver
   52  is available.
   53         (d) Category 4, which includes, but is not required to be
   54  limited to, clients whose caregivers are 70 years of age or
   55  older and for whom a caregiver is required but no alternate
   56  caregiver is available.
   57         (e) Category 5, which includes, but is not required to be
   58  limited to, clients who are expected to graduate within the next
   59  12 months from secondary school and need support to obtain or
   60  maintain competitive employment, or to pursue an accredited
   61  program of postsecondary education to which they have been
   62  accepted.
   63         (f) Category 6, which includes clients 21 years of age or
   64  older who do not meet the criteria for category 1, category 2,
   65  category 3, category 4, or category 5.
   66         (g) Category 7, which includes clients younger than 21
   67  years of age who do not meet the criteria for category 1,
   68  category 2, category 3, or category 4.
   69  
   70  Within categories 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, the agency shall maintain a
   71  wait list of clients placed in the order of the date that the
   72  client is determined eligible for waiver services.
   73         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.