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    By the Committee on Education; and Senators Wise and Dockery





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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to education; creating part VI

  3         of ch. 1011, F.S.; establishing the SUCCEED,

  4         Florida - Crucial Professionals Program;

  5         providing for the appropriation of funds to the

  6         Department of Education to be distributed on a

  7         competitive basis to postsecondary educational

  8         institutions to offer programs that meet

  9         critical workforce needs; providing for an

10         annual request for proposals and requirements

11         of such proposals; requiring the establishment

12         annually by the Legislature of a priority list

13         for funding and selection by the State Board of

14         Education; providing requirements for grant

15         recipients and renewal grants; amending s.

16         1007.2615, F.S.; establishing a deadline by

17         which American Sign Language teachers must be

18         certified; repealing s. 446.609, F.S., relating

19         to the Jobs for Florida's Graduates Act;

20         approving a transfer of an endowment from the

21         Appleton Cultural Center, Inc., to the Central

22         Florida Community College Foundation; providing

23         restrictions on the management of the

24         endowment; releasing the foundation from

25         certain trust agreement and statutory

26         requirements; providing an effective date.

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

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30         Section 1.  Part VI of chapter 1011, Florida Statutes,

31  consisting of section 1011.96, is created to read:

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 1         1011.96  SUCCEED, Florida - Crucial Professionals

 2  Program.--

 3         (1)  The SUCCEED, Florida - Crucial Professionals

 4  Program is established to award funds to accredited

 5  postsecondary educational institutions in the state on a

 6  competitive basis to offer programs that meet the critical

 7  workforce needs of the state and to maximize the number of

 8  diplomas, certificates, and degrees that are awarded to

 9  postsecondary education students in fields vital to the

10  citizens of the state.

11         (2)  Beginning with the 2006-2007 fiscal year, funds

12  appropriated by the Legislature to the Department of Education

13  for the SUCCEED, Florida - Crucial Professionals Program shall

14  be distributed according to the provisions of this section.

15         (3)  The department shall develop and issue annually a

16  request for proposals. The department shall establish

17  application procedures, guidelines, accountability measures,

18  and timelines for implementation of the grant program.

19         (4)  Proposals for a grant authorized pursuant to this

20  section must:

21         (a)  Indicate the number of students to be served, the

22  length of the proposed program, and the total projected cost

23  to the students and the state. Funds for a grant provided

24  pursuant to this section must be used to support new students

25  and not to supplant current funding or students.

26         (b)  Document the workforce need to be addressed.

27         (c)  Demonstrate a pool of qualified applicants.

28         (d)  Be submitted by an accredited public or nonpublic

29  postsecondary educational institution in the state that

30  provides postsecondary instruction in a field specified in the

31  priority list established pursuant to subsection (5). For

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 1  purposes of this section, postsecondary educational

 2  institutions include school district career centers that offer

 3  postsecondary programs.

 4         (e)  Indicate the number of postsecondary diplomas,

 5  certificates, or degrees that the institution will award using

 6  funds received pursuant to this section and the fields in

 7  which the diplomas, certificates, or degrees will be awarded.

 8         (f)  Indicate how the funds received will leverage

 9  other grants and scholarships and how the funds will be used

10  to offset student tuition costs.

11         (5)  By March 1, 2006, and annually thereafter, the

12  chair of Workforce Florida, Inc., shall advise the Legislature

13  of the state's most pressing workforce needs for postsecondary

14  instruction and the geographic locations of these needs. The

15  Legislature shall annually establish a priority list for funds

16  provided pursuant to this section in the General

17  Appropriations Act.

18         6)  The rankings and decisions of the

19  request-for-proposals process shall be made by the State Board

20  of Education based on the priority list established pursuant

21  to subsection (5).

22         (7)  Grant recipients must enter into a contract with

23  the state to produce a specific number of graduates in the

24  designated program within a specific time period. Grant

25  recipients must submit periodic reports to the department

26  documenting compliance with the accountability measures

27  established by the department.

28         (8)  Subsequent to the first year of funding for the

29  SUCCEED, Florida - Crucial Professionals Program, priority for

30  awarding grants shall be for renewal grants to programs that

31  are making adequate progress toward their contracted

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 1  production, including nursing programs and teaching programs

 2  at institutions that received funding from the SUCCEED,

 3  Florida - Crucial Professionals Program during the 2006-2007

 4  fiscal year. Renewal award amounts shall be tied to student

 5  retention; the production of degrees, certificates, or

 6  diplomas; and the number of graduates placed in the targeted

 7  professions in the state.

 8         Section 2.  Paragraph (c) of subsection (3) of section

 9  1007.2615, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

10         1007.2615  American Sign Language; findings;

11  foreign-language credits authorized; teacher licensing.--

12         (3)  DUTIES OF COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION AND STATE

13  BOARD OF EDUCATION; LICENSING OF AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE

14  TEACHERS; PLAN FOR POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION PROVIDERS.--

15         (c)  An ASL teacher must be certified by the Department

16  of Education by July 1, 2009 January 1, 2008, and must obtain

17  current certification through the Florida American Sign

18  Language Teachers' Association (FASLTA) by January 1, 2006.

19  New FASLTA certification may be used by current ASL teachers

20  as an alternative certification track.

21         Section 3.  Section 446.609, Florida Statutes, is

22  repealed.

23         Section 4.  Approval is granted for the endowment for

24  the Appleton Museum of Art, currently held by the Appleton

25  Cultural Center, Inc., to be transferred to the Central

26  Florida Community College Foundation. The endowment to be

27  transferred, which includes state matching funds, was

28  established in 1987 through the Cultural Arts Endowment

29  Program. By this provision, the Central Florida Community

30  College Foundation is authorized to manage the endowment only

31  for the support of the educational program at the Appleton

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 1  Museum of Art and is released from all other provisions of the

 2  Trust Agreement dated July 17, 1987, by and between the State

 3  of Florida and the Appleton Cultural Center, Inc., and

 4  sections 265.601 through 265.607, Florida Statutes.

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 1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
 2                         Senate Bill 1260

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 4  The Committee Substitute is the result of a strike-all
    amendment which eliminated the provisions in the original bill
 5  to:

 6       Require the Legislature to appropriate all future growth
         in postsecondary enrollment funding to the Department of
 7       Education for allocation.

 8       Allow growth funding to be allocated by a committee
         appointed by the Governor.
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    The Committee Substitute replaced the original language by:
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         Creating a SUCCEED, Florida - Crucial Professionals
11       Program directing funds appropriated by the Legislature
         to target the state's most pressing workforce needs. The
12       funds are to be distributed by the State Board of
         Education and administered by the Department of
13       Education.

14       Requiring the Legislature to adopt a priority list of the
         state's most pressing workforce needs to be used by the
15       State Board to distribute funds appropriated to support
         the SUCCEED, Florida - Crucial Professionals Program.
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         Directing the Department of Education to develop and
17       issue requests for proposals to deliver educational
         programs which address the state's most pressing
18       workforce needs.

19       Providing for the content of the requests for proposals
         and criteria for institutional eligibility to participate
20       in the program.

21  The CS added three additional content areas not addressed in
    the original bill:
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    1.   Language is added amending the date by which American
23       Sign Language teachers must be certified.  The date is
         changed from January 1, 2006 to July 1, 2009.  An
24       optional certification procedure is deleted from statute.

25  2.   Section 446.609, F.S., is repealed relating to Jobs for
         Florida Graduates.
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    3.   The endowment for the Appleton Museum of Art, currently
27       held by the Appleton Cultural Center, Inc., is authorized
         to be transferred to and managed by the Central Florida
28       Community College Foundation.

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