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1. The emergency action taken by the Agency on November 16, 2009 amended only those portions of rule specifically addressed by the Moreland case. 2. The emergency rules as amended today take only the action necessary to ensure that necessary services may be authorized to protect the vulnerable individuals with developmental disabilities served by the Agency, and to increase the availability of services to vulnerable individuals with developmental disabilities not presently served by the Agency, within existing resources, as mandated by the Legislature. 3. These emergency rules include only those changes necessary to address the Moreland decision, and those changes necessary to make effective tier assignments or reassignments. 4. Any client who will be assigned or reassigned to a tier as a result of further agency action implementing these emergency rules will be accorded direct notice and an opportunity for a hearing meeting the requirements of Chapter 120, Florida Statutes, Title 42 Part 431 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and other applicable state and federal law. 5. The emergency rules as adopted will be effective only until February 14, 2010 and will not be renewed, except during the pendency of a challenge to proposed rules addressing the subject of the emergency rules.