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ENROLLED HB 5001, ENGROSSED 1 2024 LEGISLATURE ______________________________________________________________________________ SECTION 3 - HUMAN SERVICES Grants and Donations Trust Fund and $36,416,482 from the Medical Care Trust Fund are provided to buy back intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled rate reductions, effective on or after October 1, 2008, and are contingent on the nonfederal share being provided through intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled quality assessments. Authority is granted to buy back rate reductions up to, but not higher than, the amounts available under the budgeted authority in this Specific Appropriation. In the event that the funds are not available in the Grants and Donations Trust Fund, the State of Florida is not obligated to continue reimbursements at the higher amount. The Agency for Health Care Administration shall not pay any legal judgments, settlements, lawsuit damages or awards imposed by a court as the result of any legal proceeding relating to prior fiscal years without specific authority in the General Appropriations Act. 226 SPECIAL CATEGORIES NURSING HOME CARE FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND . . . . . 51,751,894 FROM HEALTH CARE TRUST FUND . . . . 16,729,472 FROM GRANTS AND DONATIONS TRUST FUND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,921,212 FROM MEDICAL CARE TRUST FUND . . . . 132,426,833 From the funds in Specific Appropriation 226, the Agency for Health Care Administration is authorized to transfer funds in accordance with the provisions of chapter 216, Florida Statutes, to Specific Appropriation 223 specifically for slots under the Model Waiver and Specific Appropriation 227 Statewide Medicaid Managed Care Long-Term Care Waiver to transition the greatest number of appropriate eligible beneficiaries from skilled nursing facilities to community-based alternatives in order to maximize the reduction in Medicaid nursing home occupancy. Priority for the use of these funds will be given to the planning and service areas with the greatest potential for transition success. From the funds in Specific Appropriations 226 and 227, $446,001,861 from the Grants and Donations Trust Fund and $600,214,092 from the Medical Care Trust Fund are provided to buy back nursing facility rate reductions, effective on or after January 1, 2008, and are contingent on the nonfederal share being provided through nursing home quality assessments. Authority is granted to buy back rate reductions up to, but not higher than, the amounts available under the budgeted authority in these Specific Appropriations. In the event that the funds are not available in the Grants and Donations Trust Fund, the State of Florida is not obligated to continue reimbursements at the higher amount. 227 SPECIAL CATEGORIES PREPAID HEALTH PLAN/LONG TERM CARE FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND . . . . . 2,180,941,997 FROM HEALTH CARE TRUST FUND . . . . 308,100,403 FROM GRANTS AND DONATIONS TRUST FUND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435,494,210 FROM MEDICAL CARE TRUST FUND . . . . 3,941,618,000 228 SPECIAL CATEGORIES STATE MENTAL HEALTH HOSPITAL PROGRAM FROM MEDICAL CARE TRUST FUND . . . . 3,182,996 229 SPECIAL CATEGORIES PROGRAM OF ALL-INCLUSIVE CARE FOR THE ELDERLY (PACE) FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND . . . . . 127,675,339 FROM MEDICAL CARE TRUST FUND . . . . 171,821,114 All Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) organizations funded from the funds in Specific Appropriation 229 must enter into a contract with the Agency for Health Care Administration that outlines quality and performance standards, claims payment and claims filing requirements, accountability measures and reporting requirements. Any entity who the Legislature has approved to enroll participants residing in a specific geographic area in a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) may transfer such approval, and assign its Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) contract, to any other person meeting federal requirements upon the prior approval of the 79