Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 1910
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11 The Committee on Transportation and Economic Development
12 Appropriations (Sebesta) recommended the following amendment:
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 2. Florida Youth Summer Jobs Pilot Program.--
19 (1) CREATION.--Contingent upon appropriations, there
20 is created the Florida Youth Summer Jobs Pilot Program within
21 workforce development district 22 served by the Broward
22 Workforce Development Board. The board shall, in consultation
23 with Workforce Florida, Inc., provide a program offering
24 at-risk and disadvantaged children summer jobs in partnership
25 with local communities and public employers.
26 (2) ELIGIBILITY.--
27 (a) Children at least 14 but not more than 18 years of
28 age are eligible to participate in the program if they are:
29 1. At risk of welfare dependency, including
30 economically disadvantaged children, children of participants
31 in the welfare transition program, children of migrant
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1 farmworkers, and children of teen parents. For purposes of
2 this section, "economically disadvantaged children" are those
3 whose family income is below 150 percent of the federal
4 poverty level;
5 2. Children of working families whose family income
6 does not exceed 150 percent of the federal poverty level;
7 3. Juvenile offenders;
8 4. Children in foster care; or
9 5. Children with disabilities.
10 (b) Employers are eligible to participate in the
11 program under the following conditions:
12 1. The employer shall meet the program requirements of
13 subsection (3).
14 2. The employer shall pay the state minimum wage to a
15 program participant hired under the program.
16 3. The maximum hours required of a program participant
17 per week shall not exceed 30 hours.
18 4. The employer shall comply with state and federal
19 child labor and antidiscrimination laws.
20 (3) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.--
21 (a) The program shall:
22 1. Provide the program participant a work experience
23 that will teach personal responsibility and reinforce the
24 obligations and rewards of holding a job.
25 2. Allow for an academic enrichment component that
26 will assist the program participant in remaining in or
27 returning to school.
28 3. Provide documented learning experiences relevant to
29 the type of work performed and tailored to the needs of the
30 program participant.
31 4. Allow for the provision of life skills training by
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1 the local community or a third-party provider contracted by
2 the local community if such skills training takes up no more
3 than 10 percent of the program participant's work time.
4 (b) The program may begin on the day after the end of
5 the regular school year in the local community and shall end
6 before the first regular day of school in the local community.
7 (4) GOVERNANCE.--
8 (a) The pilot program shall be administered by the
9 regional workforce board in consultation with Workforce
10 Florida, Inc.
11 (b) The regional workforce board shall report to
12 Workforce Florida, Inc., the number of at-risk and
13 disadvantaged children who enter the program, the types of
14 work activities they participate in, and the number of
15 children who return to school, go on to postsecondary school,
16 or enter the workforce full time at the end of the program.
17 Workforce Florida, Inc., shall report to the Legislature by
18 November 1 of each year on the performance of the program.
19 (5) FUNDING.--
20 (a) The regional workforce board shall, consistent
21 with state and federal laws, use funds appropriated
22 specifically for the pilot program to provide youth wage
23 payments and educational enrichment activities. The regional
24 workforce board and local communities may obtain private or
25 state and federal grants or other sources of funds in addition
26 to any appropriated funds.
27 (b) Program funds shall be used as follows:
28 1. No less than 85 percent of the funds shall be used
29 for youth wage payments or educational enrichment activities.
30 These funds shall be matched on a one-to-one basis by each
31 local community that participates in the program.
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1 2. No more than 2 percent of the funds may be used for
2 administrative purposes.
3 3. The remainder of the funds may be used for
4 transportation assistance, childcare assistance, or other
5 assistance to enable a program participant to enter or remain
6 in the program.
7 (c) The regional workforce board shall pay a
8 participating employer an amount equal to one-half of the
9 wages paid to a youth participating in the program. Payments
10 shall be made monthly for the duration that the youth
11 participant is employed as documented by the employer and
12 confirmed by the regional workforce board.
13 Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a
14 law.
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18 And the title is amended as follows:
19 On page 1, line 19, after the second semicolon,
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22 creating the Florida Youth Summer Jobs Pilot
23 Program; providing eligibility requirements for
24 program participants and public employers;
25 requiring the program to be administered by a
26 regional workforce board in consultation with
27 Workforce Florida, Inc.; providing employment
28 and educational requirements; requiring the
29 regional workforce board to make an annual
30 report; providing certain uses for program
31 funds; providing an effective date.
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