1998 Florida Code
TITLE XXX SOCIAL WELFARE
Chapter 410 Aging And Adult Services  
410.0245   Study of service needs; report; multiyear plan.

410.0245  Study of service needs; report; multiyear plan.--

(1)(a)  The 1Aging and Adult Services Program Office of the 2Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services shall contract for a study of the service needs of the 18-to-59-year-old disabled adult population served or waiting to be served by the community care for disabled adults program. The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the Department of Labor and Employment Security and other appropriate state agencies shall provide information to the 2Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services when requested for the purposes of this study.

(b)  The study shall identify the demographic characteristics and major disabilities prevalent in the disabled adult population served or waiting to be served by the community care for disabled adults program, determine the types of services delivered to this population that are attributed to their social circumstances and disabilities, and project the extent of services needed but not available to this population covering the continuum of residential and community services. In addition, the study shall use existing data on the incidence of disability to develop estimates of future service needs, costs, and capacity needed to meet new demand.

(c)  A final report with recommendations, including proposed legislation based on the study, shall be provided to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives on or before March 1, 1991.

(2)  Based on the findings of the study, the 1Aging and Adult Services Program Office of the 2Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services shall develop a multiyear plan which shall provide for the needs of disabled adults in this state and shall provide strategies for statewide coordination of all services for disabled adults. The multiyear plan shall include an inventory of existing services and an analysis of costs associated with existing and projected services. The multiyear plan shall be presented to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives every 3 years on or before March 1, beginning in 1992. On or before March 1 of each intervening year, the department shall submit an analysis of the status of the implementation of each element of the multiyear plan, any continued unmet need, and the relationship between that need and the department's budget request for that year.

History.--s. 12, ch. 90-319.

1Note.--Section 5, ch. 96-403, deletes all references to "Aging and Adult Services Program Office" from s. 20.19.

2Note.--The Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services was redesignated as the Department of Children and Family Services by s. 5, ch. 96-403, and the Department of Health was created by s. 8, ch. 96-403.