General Bill
Emergency Management:
Specifies additional agencies that are required to provide registration information to special needs clients and persons with disabilities or special needs who receive services from such agencies for purposes of inclusion within the registry of persons with special needs maintained by local emergency management agencies; provides that the Department of Community Affairs shall be the designated lead agency responsible for community education and outreach to the general public, including special needs clients, regarding registration as a person with special needs, special needs shelters, and general information regarding shelter stays; requires the department to disseminate educational and outreach information through local emergency management offices; requires the department to coordinate community education and outreach related to special needs shelters with specified agencies and entities; provides that specified confidential and exempt information relating to registration of persons with special needs be provided to the Department of Health; provides for the operation, maintenance, and closure of special needs shelters; removes a condition of specified funding as a prerequisite to the assumption of lead responsibility by the Department of Health for specified coordination with respect to the development of a plan for the staffing and medical management of special needs shelters; provides that the local Children's Medical Services offices shall assume lead responsibility for specified coordination with respect to the development of a plan for the staffing and medical management of pediatric special needs shelters; requires such plans to conform to the local comprehensive emergency management plan; requires county governments to assist in the process of coordinating the recruitment of health care practitioners to staff local special needs shelters; provides that the appropriate county health department, Children's Medical Services office, and local emergency management agency shall jointly determine the responsibility for medical supervision in a special needs shelter; provides that state employees with a preestablished role in disaster response may be called upon to serve in times of disaster in specified capacities; requires the Secretary of Elderly Affairs to convene a multiagency emergency special needs shelter response team or teams to assist local areas that are severely impacted by a natural or manmade disaster that required the use of special needs shelters; provides duties and responsibilities of multiagency response teams; authorizes local emergency management agencies to request the assistance of a multiagency response team; provides for the inclusion of specified state agency representatives on each multiagency response team; authorizes hospitals and nursing homes that are used to shelter special needs persons during or after an evacuation to submit invoices for reimbursement to the Department of Health; requires the department to specify by rule expenses that are reimbursable and the rate of reimbursement for services; prescribes means of and procedures for reimbursement; provides eligibility for reimbursement of health care facilities to whom special needs shelter clients have been discharged by a multiagency response team upon closure of a special needs shelter; provides requirements with respect to such reimbursement; prescribes means of and procedures for reimbursement; disallows specified reimbursements; revises the role of the special needs shelter interagency committee with respect to the planning and operation of special needs shelters; provides required functions of the committee; provides that the committee shall recommend guidelines to establish a statewide database to collect and disseminate special needs registration information; revises the composition of the special needs shelter interagency committee; requires the inclusion of specified rules with respect to special needs shelters and specified minimum standards therefor; provides requirements with respect to emergency management plans submitted by a home health agency, nurse registry, or hospice to a county health department for review; removes a condition of specified funding as a prerequisite to the submission of such plans; requires the Division of Emergency Management of the Department of Community Affairs to prepare and submit a statewide emergency shelter plan to the Governor and the Cabinet for approval; provides plan requirements; requires the Department of Health to assist the division in determining the estimated need for special needs shelter space; requires inspection of public hurricane evacuation shelter facilities by local emergency management agencies prior to activation of such facilities; provides that nurse registries, hospices, and durable medical equipment providers shall prepare and maintain a comprehensive emergency management plan; provides that home health, hospice, and durable medical equipment provider agencies shall not be required to continue to provide care to patients in emergency situations that are beyond their control and that make it impossible to provide services; authorizes home health agencies, nurse registries, hospices, and durable medical equipment providers to establish links to local emergency operations centers to determine a mechanism to approach areas within a disaster area in order for the agency to reach its clients; provides that the presentation of home care or hospice clients to the special needs shelter without the home health agency or hospice making a good faith effort to provide services in the shelter setting constitutes abandonment of the client; requires regulatory review in such cases; provides that entities regulated or licensed by the Agency for Health Care Administration may exceed their licensed capacity to act as a receiving facility under specified circumstances; provides requirements while such entities are in an overcapacity status; provides for issuance of an inactive license to such licensees under specified conditions; provides requirements and procedures with respect to the issuance and reactivation of an inactive license; provides fees; requires the Florida Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan to permit the Agency for Health Care Administration to initially contact nursing homes in disaster areas for specified monitoring purposes; requires the agency to publish an emergency telephone number for use by nursing homes.
Effective Date:
July 1, 2006.
Last Event:
Withdrawn prior to introduction, Link/Iden/Sim/Compare passed, refer to HB 7121 (Ch. 2006-71) on Thursday, February 23, 2006 10:15 AM
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HB 7121
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Subject:
Disaster Preparedness Response and Recovery
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Relationship:
Compare
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Bill #:
HB 7139
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Subject:
Emergency Management
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Relationship:
Compare
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Bill #:
CS/CS/CS/CS/CS/SB 1058
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Subject:
Emergency Management
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Compare
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H Withdrawn prior to introduction, Link/Iden/Sim/Compare passed, refer to HB 7121 (Ch. 2006-71)
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Time:
02/23/2006 - 10:15 AM
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Harrell
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H Added as workshop bill to Health Care General Committee agenda
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Time:
01/13/2006 - 3:55 PM
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Health Care General Committee
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H Now in Health Care General Committee
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Time:
09/22/2005 - 10:19 AM
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Health Care General Committee
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H Referred to Health & Families Council
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Time:
09/22/2005 - 10:19 AM
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Health & Families Council
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H Referred to Health Care Appropriations Committee
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Time:
09/22/2005 - 10:19 AM
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Health Care Appropriations Committee
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H Referred to Domestic Security Committee
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Time:
09/22/2005 - 10:19 AM
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Domestic Security Committee
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H Referred to Health Care General Committee
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Time:
09/22/2005 - 10:19 AM
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Health Care General Committee
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H Filed
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Time:
08/23/2005 - 1:35 PM
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Member:
Harrell
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