The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXX
SOCIAL WELFARE

Chapter 429
ASSISTED CARE COMMUNITIES

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F.S. 429.73

429.73 Rules and standards relating to adult family-care homes.—

(1) The agency in consultation with the Department of Health and the Department of Children and Families shall establish by rule minimum standards to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of each resident in the adult family-care home pursuant to this part. The rules must address:

(a) Requirements for the physical site of the facility and facility maintenance.

(b) Services that must be provided to all residents of an adult family-care home and standards for such services, which must include, but need not be limited to:

1. Room and board.

2. Assistance necessary to perform the activities of daily living.

3. Assistance necessary to administer medication.

4. Supervision of residents.

5. Health monitoring.

6. Social and leisure activities.

(c) Standards and procedures for license application and annual license renewal, advertising, proper management of each resident’s funds and personal property and personal affairs, financial ability to operate, medication management, inspections, complaint investigations, and facility, staff, and resident records.

(d) Qualifications, training, standards, and responsibilities for providers and staff.

(e) Compliance with chapter 419, relating to community residential homes.

(f) Criteria and procedures for determining the appropriateness of a resident’s placement and continued residency in an adult family-care home. A resident who requires 24-hour nursing supervision may not be retained in an adult family-care home unless such resident is an enrolled hospice patient and the resident’s continued residency is mutually agreeable to the resident and the provider.

(g) Procedures for providing notice and assuring the least possible disruption of residents’ lives when residents are relocated, an adult family-care home is closed, or the ownership of an adult family-care home is transferred.

(h) Procedures to protect the residents’ rights as provided in s. 429.85.

(i) Procedures to promote the growth of adult family-care homes as a component of a long-term care system.

(j) Procedures to promote the goal of aging in place for residents of adult family-care homes.

(2) The agency shall provide by rule minimum standards and procedures for emergencies. Pursuant to s. 633.206, the State Fire Marshal, in consultation with the agency, shall adopt uniform firesafety standards for adult family-care homes.

(3) The agency shall adopt rules providing for the implementation of orders not to resuscitate. The provider may withhold or withdraw cardiopulmonary resuscitation if presented with an order not to resuscitate executed pursuant to s. 401.45. The provider shall not be subject to criminal prosecution or civil liability, nor be considered to have engaged in negligent or unprofessional conduct, for withholding or withdrawing cardiopulmonary resuscitation pursuant to such an order and applicable rules.

History.—ss. 1, 2, ch. 85-195; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 7, ch. 93-209; s. 24, ch. 95-210; s. 65, ch. 95-418; s. 10, ch. 98-148; s. 7, ch. 98-338; s. 3, ch. 99-179; s. 7, ch. 99-331; s. 3, ch. 2006-197; s. 104, ch. 2007-5; s. 163, ch. 2007-230; s. 139, ch. 2013-183; s. 253, ch. 2014-19; s. 25, ch. 2019-11.

Note.—Former s. 400.621.

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Amendments to 429.73

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 429.73

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 429.73.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

CARR v. TADIN, INC., 51 F. Supp. 3d 970 (S.D. Cal. 2014)

. . . final approval hearing, the Court preliminarily determined that Class Counsel are entitled to costs of $429.73 . . . This adds up to $429.73. . . . Accordingly, the Court GRANTS costs in the amount of $429.73 but DENIES the remainder of the costs requested . . . Class Counsel SHALL FILE a bill of costs in accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54 for the $429.73 . . .

UNITED STATES v. MOODY,, 339 F.2d 161 (6th Cir. 1964)

. . . years 1956,1957, 1958 and 1959 the defendant had willfully understated his income by a total of $23,-429.73 . . .

SUNSHINE MINING CO. v. TREINIES, 19 F. Supp. 587 (D. Idaho 1937)

. . . under a levy issued out of the state district court of Idaho, upon a judgment of that court for $19,-429.73 . . .

TAYLOR v. FRAM, 252 F. 465 (2d Cir. 1918)

. . . was on January 18, 1910, when he was adjudicated a bankrupt, indebted to defendants in file sum of $429.73 . . .

TAYLOR v. FRAM, 243 F. 733 (E.D.N.Y. 1917)

. . . defendants, goods which were checked- up by a clerk of the defendants, to the value at cost price of $429.73 . . . The credits by merchandise and money amounted to $968.80 up to December 11, 1915, and $429.73 in merchandise . . . clear to the extent of showing that the wholesale price of the goods returned to the defendants was $429.73 . . . objection, however, and the relief, to the extent of directing payment by the defendants of the sum of $429.73 . . .