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Florida Senate - 1999 SB 1664
By Senator Horne
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to training centers;
3 establishing training school consolidation
4 pilot projects; providing for transfer of
5 responsibility for the operation of existing
6 programs; providing for the transfer of real
7 property; providing program requirements;
8 providing for exemptions from statutes and
9 rules; requiring the Department of Education to
10 shift all FTE and other funding from a school
11 district to a receiving community college;
12 providing a guideline for the future approval
13 of programs; requiring a study; providing an
14 effective date.
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16 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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18 Section 1. Training school consolidation pilot
19 projects.--
20 (1) ESTABLISHMENT.--To consolidate and more
21 efficiently use state and taxpayer resources by combining
22 training programs, pilot training centers shall be established
23 to combine existing training programs for law enforcement
24 officers, correctional officers, and firefighters and other
25 public criminal justice training in Lake, Leon, Pinellas, and
26 St. Johns counties. The following pilot training centers are
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28 (a) The Ken Bragg Center at Lake-Sumter Community
29 College.
30 (b) The Pat Thomas Center at Tallahassee Community
31 College.
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1 (c) The Criminal Justice Academy at St. Johns River
2 Community College.
3 (d) The Criminal Justice Training Center at St.
4 Petersburg Community College.
5 (2) EXISTING PUBLIC CRIMINAL JUSTICE TRAINING
6 PROGRAMS.--In the pilot counties, responsibility for the
7 operation of existing public criminal justice training
8 programs will be shifted from the school district to the
9 community college in whose service area the public criminal
10 justice training program is located. Ownership of existing
11 school-district-owned public criminal justice training program
12 real property will be transferred to the respective community
13 college. Lease of state-owned public criminal justice training
14 program real property will be transferred to the respective
15 community college.
16 (3) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.--Each pilot training center
17 will be regional in nature, as defined by the Criminal Justice
18 Standards and Training Commission and the Firefighters
19 Standards and Training Council. Each pilot training center
20 must obtain from the Criminal Justice Standards and Training
21 Commission and the Firefighters Standards and Training Council
22 a certificate of compliance for those components of the newly
23 established pilot training center for which that body
24 currently provides uniform policies and procedures. The
25 certificate of compliance will be granted based upon
26 compliance with applicable standards and the following
27 requirements. Each community college board of trustees must:
28 (a) Establish a pilot training center advisory
29 committee made up of professionals from the field of each
30 training program included in the pilot project.
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1 (b) Adopt a schedule for reimbursement to the school
2 district, from funds provided by the Legislature specifically
3 for that purpose, for loss of actual profits from funds
4 received through the Florida Education Finance Program and for
5 documented local funds previously expended in the facility for
6 purposes of public criminal justice training.
7 (c) Provide certificate and noncredit options for
8 students and training components of the pilot training center
9 that so require.
10 (d) Develop an articulation agreement with the state
11 university system to facilitate the transfer of graduates of a
12 community college degree training program to the upper
13 division of a state university with a corresponding program.
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15 The community college board of trustees may provide for school
16 district public criminal justice training staff employed in
17 full-time budgeted positions to be transferred into the
18 community college personnel system at their existing rate of
19 salary. Retirement and leave provisions will be transferred
20 according to law.
21 (4) EXEMPTIONS FROM STATUTES AND RULES.--To facilitate
22 the utilization of innovative training methods, the Criminal
23 Justice Standards and Training Commission or the Firefighters
24 Standards and Training Council shall waive, upon the request
25 of the community college board of trustees, any provisions of
26 law or rule which prohibits the pilot training center from
27 utilizing that innovative training method. The Criminal
28 Justice Standards and Training Commission and the Firefighters
29 Standards and Training Council shall have waiver jurisdiction
30 over those components of the pilot training center course or
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1 program for which that body currently provides uniform
2 standards and policies.
3 (5) DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.--The Department of
4 Education shall shift all FTE and other funding from all
5 sources, including incentive funding and other recurring and
6 nonrecurring funding, from the appropriate school district to
7 the receiving community college. The community college shall
8 qualify for new facilities funding upon transfer of the
9 facility. These shifts in funding are effective for the
10 1999-2000 fiscal year.
11 (6) GUIDING PRINCIPLES.--In the future, it shall be
12 the policy of the Criminal Justice Standards and Training
13 Commission and the Firefighters Standards and Training Council
14 to approve public criminal justice training programs based
15 upon the principle that programs that serve students who have
16 received a high school diploma, or its equivalent, shall be
17 administered under the governance of the appropriate
18 postsecondary system. Those programs that serve students who
19 have not received a high school diploma, or its equivalent,
20 shall be administered under the governance of the appropriate
21 public school system. Students enrolled for these purposes may
22 qualify under dual-enrollment provisions.
23 (7) STUDY.--The Criminal Justice Standards and
24 Training Commission and the Firefighters Standards and
25 Training Council shall jointly review and analyze alternative
26 training methods used by the pilot training centers. The State
27 Board of Community Colleges and the Office of the Auditor
28 General shall jointly conduct a 5-year longitudinal study of
29 the effect of the pilot programs relative to cost and
30 efficiency. A report on the pilot center shall be filed with
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1 the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
2 Representatives by January 1, 2004.
3 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a
4 law.
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7 SENATE SUMMARY
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Establishes training school consolidation pilot projects.
9 Provides for the transfer of responsibility for the
operation of existing programs from the school district
10 to the community college in whose service area the
program is located. Provides for the transfer of real
11 property. Provides program requirements. Provides for
exemptions from statutes and rules. Requires the
12 Department of Education to shift all FTE and other
funding from the appropriate school district to the
13 receiving community college. Provides a guideline for the
future approval of programs. Requires the Criminal
14 Justice Standards and Training Commission and the
Firefighters Standards and Training Council to conduct a
15 study. Requires the State Board of Community Colleges and
the Office of the Auditor General to conduct a 5-year
16 longitudinal study.
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