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    By the Committee on Education and 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

  7         facilities and equipment; providing program

  8         requirements; providing for staffing; requiring

  9         the Department of Education to shift all FTE

10         and other funding from a school district to a

11         receiving community college; providing an

12         effective date.

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14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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16         Section 1.  Training school consolidation pilot

17  projects.--

18         (1)  ESTABLISHMENT.--To consolidate and more

19  efficiently use state and taxpayer resources by combining

20  training programs, pilot training centers are established to

21  provide public criminal justice training in Leon and St. Johns

22  Counties. The following pilot training centers are

23  established:

24         (a)  The Pat Thomas Center at Tallahassee Community

25  College.

26         (b)  The Criminal Justice Academy at St. Johns River

27  Community College.

28         (2)  EXISTING PUBLIC CRIMINAL JUSTICE TRAINING

29  PROGRAMS.--Notwithstanding sections 229.551(1)(g), 230.02,

30  230.35, and 230.64, Florida Statutes, or any other provision

31  of law to the contrary, criminal justice training programs in

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  1  the pilot counties will transfer to community colleges,

  2  effective July 1, 1999, at which time responsibility for the

  3  provision of basic recruit, advanced, career development, and

  4  continuing training courses and programs offered in public

  5  criminal justice training programs and for the operation of

  6  existing public criminal justice training programs will be

  7  shifted from the school district to the community college in

  8  whose service area the public criminal justice training

  9  program is located. Certification of the program granted by

10  the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission will be

11  transferred to the respective community college and the

12  college must continue to meet the requirements of the

13  commission.

14         (3)  FACILITIES.--

15         (a)  Criminal justice training program educational

16  facilities, educational plants, and related equipment as

17  defined in section 235.011(6) and (7), Florida Statutes, which

18  are owned by the state and paid for with only state funds

19  shall be transferred to the community college, except that, if

20  such an educational facility or educational plant or part of

21  such facility or plant is used for other purposes in addition

22  to public criminal justice training, the Criminal Justice

23  Standards and Training Commission shall mediate the transfer

24  or a suitable multi-use arrangement.

25         (b)  Criminal justice training program educational

26  facilities, educational plants, and related equipment as

27  defined in section 235.011(6) and (7), Florida Statutes, which

28  are owned by the school district and paid for in whole or in

29  part with local tax funds shall be leased to the community

30  college. However, if such an educational facility or

31  educational plant, or part of such facility or plant, is used

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  1  for other purposes in addition to public criminal justice

  2  training, the Criminal Justice Standards and Training

  3  Commission shall mediate a suitable lease agreement. If a

  4  school district and a community college cannot agree on the

  5  terms and conditions of the lease agreement, the Criminal

  6  Justice Standards and Training Commission shall finalize the

  7  agreement and report its decision to the Legislature. The

  8  Department of Education, Office of Educational Facilities,

  9  shall conduct an analysis, by December 31, 1999, to determine

10  the amount of local tax contribution used in the construction

11  of a school-district-owned criminal justice training program,

12  educational facility, or educational plant affected by the

13  transfer. This analysis shall be used to establish a purchase

14  price for the facility or plant. The local community college

15  district board of trustees may make a legislative budget

16  request through the State Board of Community Colleges to

17  purchase the facility or plant, or it may continue to lease

18  the facility or plant.

19         (4)  PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.--Each pilot training center

20  will be regional in nature, as defined by the Criminal Justice

21  Standards and Training Commission. Each Community College with

22  responsibility for a public criminal justice training program

23  must:

24         (a)  Establish a pilot training center advisory

25  committee made up of professionals from the field of each

26  training program included in the pilot project.

27         (b)  Provide certificate and noncredit options for

28  students and training components of the pilot training center

29  that so require.

30         (c)  Develop an articulation agreement with the State

31  University System to facilitate the transfer of graduates of a

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  1  community college degree training program to the upper

  2  division of a state university with a corresponding program.

  3         (5)  STAFFING.--The community college board of trustees

  4  may provide for school district public criminal justice

  5  training staff employed in full-time budgeted positions to be

  6  transferred into the community college personnel system at the

  7  same rate of salary. Retirement and leave provisions will be

  8  transferred according to law.

  9         (6)  FUNDING.--Beginning July 1, 1999, the Department

10  of Education shall shift funds generated by students in the

11  pilot training centers established by this section, including

12  workforce development recurring and nonrecurring funds, from

13  the appropriate school district to the respective community

14  college. The community college shall qualify for future

15  facilities funding upon transfer of the facility.

16         (a)  Consistent with section 236.081(7), Florida

17  Statutes, school districts that transfer programs will receive

18  an amount equal to 15 percent of the funding generated for the

19  program under the FEFP in 1996-1997.

20         (b)  Reflecting the lower program costs in the

21  Community College System, notwithstanding the funding

22  generated in paragraph (a), community colleges will receive 90

23  percent of the funding generated for the program under the

24  FEFP in 1996-1997. The school district will retain the

25  remaining 10 percent.

26         (c)  Notwithstanding sections 239.115(6)(a) and

27  239.117(6)(a), Florida Statutes, or any other provision of law

28  to the contrary, fees for continuing workforce education for

29  public law enforcement officers at these pilot centers shall

30  not exceed 25 percent of the cost of the course.

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  1         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

  2  law.

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  4          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  5                             SB 1664

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  7  The Committee Substitute:

  8  Will not affect programs in Pinellas County or Lake County,
    only Leon and St. John's.
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    Will not affect firefighter training programs, only public
10  criminal justice training programs.

11  Requires the community college to lease the property from the
    school district if it was purchased in whole or in part with
12  local taxes. If the agencies cannot agree on the terms of the
    lease, the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission
13  must finalize the agreement.

14  Requires a report by the Department of Education, Office of
    Educational Facilities, on the amount of local taxes used in
15  the construction of the facilities used by the affected
    programs, and requires that information to be used to
16  establish a purchase price. If the Legislature provides the
    funding in the 2000 General Appropriations Act, presumably the
17  school district would be obligated to sell the property to the
    community college.
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    Requires payment for the program in 1999-2000 to be based on
19  the amount generated by the program in 1996-1997, through the
    FEFP. The payment is 15 percent of that amount to the school
20  district and 90 percent of that amount to the community
    college.
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