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Florida House of Representatives - 2000 HB 2149
By the Committee on General Appropriations and
Representative Villalobos
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to the Department of Juvenile
3 Justice; creating s. 985.3045, F.S.; providing
4 eligibility requirements for funding and
5 accountability standards for juvenile justice
6 prevention activities; requiring all entities
7 that receive or use state appropriations
8 through contracts or grants for prevention
9 services to conform to certain established
10 prevention strategies and to collect minimum
11 outcome data relative to the performance
12 measures; providing requirements for
13 state-funded private sector service providers;
14 requiring the department to submit a report,
15 present findings, and make recommendations to
16 the Legislature; requiring any panel
17 established to make recommendations to the
18 Governor or Legislature to use such
19 accountability standards; exempting
20 children-in-need-of-services and
21 families-in-need-of-services programs; creating
22 s. 985.2155, F.S.; imposing daily subsistence
23 fees for children in detention or commitment
24 programs of the department; allowing the
25 department to engage the assistance of a
26 private collection agency or the Department of
27 Revenue in collecting required maintenance and
28 daily subsistence fees; limiting the total
29 amount of the maintenance and daily subsistence
30 fees to the actual cost of care; providing an
31 effective date.
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1 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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3 Section 1. Section 985.3045, Florida Statutes, is
4 created to read:
5 985.3045 Eligibility for funding and accountability
6 standards for juvenile justice prevention activities.--
7 (1) Funding for juvenile justice prevention activities
8 shall be as provided through legislative appropriations.
9 (2) All entities that receive or use state
10 appropriations through contracts or grants to fund juvenile
11 justice prevention services shall design the programs
12 providing such services to further one or more strategies
13 established to target risk factors associated with entering or
14 reentering the juvenile justice system. The following program
15 strategies for preventing juvenile crime are hereby
16 authorized:
17 (a) Programs designed to encourage school attendance
18 by at-risk youth, which may include special assistance to
19 youth to address identified deficiencies in academic
20 performance.
21 (b) Programs designed to engage at-risk youth in
22 wholesome activities during nonschool hours or other times
23 when juvenile crime is most likely to occur.
24 (c) Programs designed to help at-risk youth avoid gang
25 activity and otherwise avoid engaging in violent activities.
26 (d) Programs designed to help at-risk youth acquire
27 the skills they need to find meaningful employment, which may
28 include job-placement assistance.
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30 The department may establish other program strategies to
31 prevent juvenile crime based on documented risk factors.
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1 (3) All entities that receive or use state
2 appropriations through contracts or grants to fund juvenile
3 justice prevention services shall, as a condition of receiving
4 such funds, track uniform statewide outcome measures through a
5 uniform data-collection methodology developed by the
6 department to measure criminal activity by program
7 participants. In addition, the department shall develop
8 uniform statewide outcome measures and uniform data-collection
9 methodologies for each program strategy established pursuant
10 to subsection (2). All entities that receive or use state
11 appropriations through contracts or grants to fund juvenile
12 justice prevention services shall, as a condition of receiving
13 such funds, track the applicable measures established pursuant
14 to this subsection as follows:
15 (a) For programs designed to encourage school
16 attendance, which may include special assistance and tutoring
17 to address identified deficiencies in academic performance,
18 the number of days participants attended school during
19 participation in the program.
20 (b) For programs designed to engage at-risk youth in
21 productive and wholesome activities during nonschool hours
22 when juvenile crime is most likely to occur, the number of
23 arrests during nonschool hours by program participants.
24 (c) For programs designed to help youth avoid gangs
25 and otherwise avoid engaging in violent activities, the number
26 of program participants arrested for violent crimes.
27 (d) For programs designed to help youth acquire the
28 skills they need to find meaningful employment, which may
29 include assistance in finding a suitable employer for youth,
30 the number of program participants who get and maintain
31 employment for at least 180 days.
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2 The department shall develop an outcome measure for each
3 program strategy it develops that logically relates to the
4 risk factor addressed by the strategy. In addition to the
5 statewide outcome measures established pursuant to this
6 subsection, the department may establish additional outcome
7 measures unique to each individual program as long as the
8 measures logically relate to the specific purpose of the
9 program and the imposition of reporting requirements is not
10 unduly burdensome. Each program shall also maintain output
11 data that, at a minimum, details the number of youth served
12 and the units of service provided. The department shall, to
13 the extent practicable, establish uniform, consistent
14 unit-of-service and unit-cost definitions.
15 (4) All private sector entities that receive or use
16 state appropriations to fund juvenile justice prevention
17 services shall enter into an agreement with one or more
18 referring entities that work with children on a regular basis,
19 which shall include, but not be limited to, local schools,
20 local law enforcement departments, child welfare agencies, or
21 the department. The agreement must specify the criteria to be
22 used to refer children to the program and must be approved by
23 the department.
24 (5) The department shall evaluate the performance
25 measures and outcome data of the state-funded juvenile justice
26 prevention services submitted from the agencies or entities
27 under this section. This evaluation shall be the basis for an
28 annual report to the Legislature specifying the number and
29 types of juvenile justice prevention services operating in the
30 state and shall include an assessment of the services relative
31 to their focus areas, performance measures, and outcome data.
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1 The department shall include in the report its findings
2 concerning the impact of the identified focus areas, minimum
3 performance measures, and minimum outcome data relative to the
4 effectiveness of such services in preventing juvenile crime.
5 The report may contain recommendations to modify either the
6 program strategies established pursuant to subsection (2) or
7 the outcome measures established pursuant to subsection (3).
8 The report shall also identify any other matters that may be
9 of critical importance to the prevention of juvenile crime.
10 The report shall be due by September 1 of each year. In
11 addition, the report shall recommend appropriate performance
12 standards for each strategy adopted pursuant to subsection (2)
13 and shall report the performance measures and standards as
14 part of its performance-based legislative program budget
15 request pursuant to s. 216.0235.
16 (6) Any panel established to review juvenile justice
17 prevention projects for the Governor and Legislature shall
18 utilize the outcome measures and other accountability
19 standards provided in subsections (2)-(4) in determining
20 whether a program meets threshold criteria for approval by the
21 panel. In addition, any such panel may utilize outcome data of
22 ongoing programs to determine if they have actually met
23 expectations established as a condition for receiving state
24 funding and may take this information into account in
25 recommending whether programs meet threshold criteria to be
26 recommended to the Governor and Legislature.
27 (7) This section does not apply to
28 children-in-need-of-services and families-in-need-of-services
29 programs.
30 Section 2. Section 985.2155, Florida Statutes, is
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1 985.2155 Daily subsistence fees.--In addition to the
2 provisions of this chapter that require the imposition of
3 maintenance fees, the department shall collect a daily
4 subsistence fee of $2 for each day a child is in secure,
5 nonsecure, or home detention care, commitment, or any other
6 placement provided through the department pursuant to a court
7 order. The department shall deduct the fee from any accounts
8 established on behalf of the child prior to disbursing funds
9 for any other purpose. If the child is unable to pay the daily
10 subsistence fee, the natural or adoptive parents of such
11 child, the natural father of such child born out of wedlock
12 who has acknowledged his paternity in writing before the court
13 or had paternity established by the court, or the guardian of
14 such child's estate, if possessed of assets which under law
15 may be disbursed for the care, support, and maintenance of the
16 child, shall be required to pay the daily subsistence fee. The
17 department shall make all reasonable efforts to collect the
18 daily subsistence fees and court-ordered maintenance fees,
19 including court action or reporting to a credit bureau. In
20 addition, the department may engage the assistance of a
21 collection agency registered and in good standing under
22 chapter 559 or the Department of Revenue in collecting
23 maintenance fees and daily subsistence fees required by this
24 chapter. The court shall take into account the $2 daily
25 subsistence fee required by this section in establishing the
26 maintenance fee required by this chapter so that the total
27 fees assessed do not exceed the actual cost of care.
28 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.
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2 HOUSE SUMMARY
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Provides eligibility requirements for funding and
4 accountability standards for juvenile justice prevention
activities. Requires all entities that receive or use
5 state appropriations through contracts or grants for
prevention services to conform to certain established
6 prevention strategies and to collect minimum outcome data
relative to the performance measures. Provides
7 requirements for state-funded private sector service
providers. Requires the Department of Juvenile Justice to
8 submit a report, present findings, and make
recommendations to the Legislature. Requires any panel
9 established to make recommendations to the Governor or
Legislature to use such accountability standards. Exempts
10 children-in-need-of-services and
families-in-need-of-services programs.
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12 Imposes daily subsistence fees for children in detention
or commitment programs of the department. Allows the
13 department to engage the assistance of a private
collection agency or the Department of Revenue in
14 collecting required maintenance and daily subsistence
fees. Limits the total amount of the maintenance and
15 daily subsistence fees to the actual cost of care.
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