SB 190 — Health Care for Children

Florida Senate - 2020 CS for CS for SB 190 By the CommitteesCommittee on Appropriations;Health Policy;

and HealthSenators Policy;Montford, Harrell, Berman, and Cruz 588-03478-20 2020190c1 A bill to be entitled An act relating to Medicaid school-based services;

and Senators Montford, Harrell, Berman, Cruz, and Braynon 576-04561-20 2020190c2 A bill to be entitled An act relating to health care for children;

383.14, F.S.;

requiring the Department of Health to create and make available electronically a pamphlet with specified information;

amending s.

383.318, F.S.;

requiring birth centers to provide the informational pamphlet to clients during postpartum care;

amending s.

395.1053, F.S.;

requiring hospitals that provide birthing services to provide the informational pamphlet to parents during postpartum education;

creating s.

456.0496, F.S.;

requiring certain health care practitioners to ensure that the pamphlet is provided to parents after a planned out-of-hospital birth;

amending s.

409.9072, F.S.;

revising a requirement for the agency’s reimbursement of school-based services to certain charter and private schools;

revising qualifications for health care practitioners engaged by schools to provide services;

conforming a provision to changes made by the act;

amending s.

2620 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

2822 Section 1. Paragraph1. Subsection (i)(1), isparagraph added(b) toof subsection (3)(2), and subsection (6) of section 383.14,409.9071, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

383.14 Screening for metabolic disorders, other hereditary and congenital disorders, and environmental risk factors.— (3) DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH;

POWERS AND DUTIES.—The department shall administer and provide certain services to implement the provisions of this section and shall:

(i) Create and make available electronically a pamphlet with information on screening for, and the treatment of, preventable infant and childhood eye and vision disorders, including, but not limited to, retinoblastoma and amblyopia.

40 All provisions of this subsection must be coordinated with the provisions and plans established under this chapter, chapter 411, and Pub.

L.

No.

99-457.

Section 2. Paragraph (i) is added to subsection (3) of section 383.318, Florida Statutes, to read:

383.318 Postpartum care for birth center clients and infants.— (3) The birth center shall provide a postpartum evaluation and followup care that includes all of the following:

(i) Provision of the informational pamphlet on infant and childhood eye and vision disorders created by the department pursuant to s.

383.14(3)(i).

Section 3. Section 395.1053, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

395.1053 Postpartum education.—A hospital that provides birthing services shall incorporate information on safe sleep practices and the possible causes of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death into the hospital’s postpartum instruction on the care of newborns and provide to each parent the informational pamphlet on infant and childhood eye and vision disorders created by the department pursuant to s.

383.14(3)(i).

Section 4. Section 456.0496, Florida Statutes, is created to read:

456.0496 Provision of information to parents during planned out-of-hospital births.—A health care practitioner who attends an out-of-hospital birth must ensure that the informational pamphlet on infant and childhood eye and vision disorders created by the department pursuant to s.

383.14(3)(i) is provided to each parent after such a birth.

Section 5. Subsection (1), paragraph (b) of subsection (2), and subsection (6) of section 409.9071, Florida Statutes, are amended to read: