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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to juvenile services; amending

  3         s. 20.316, F.S.; redesignating the Department

  4         of Juvenile Justice as the "Department of

  5         Juvenile Services"; redesignating the Secretary

  6         of Juvenile Justice as the "Secretary of

  7         Juvenile Services"; amending ss. 216.133 and

  8         216.136, F.S.; redesignating the Juvenile

  9         Justice Estimating Conference as the "Juvenile

10         Services Estimating Conference"; requesting the

11         Division of Statutory Revision of the Office of

12         Legislative Services to prepare a reviser's

13         bill for introduction at a subsequent session

14         of the Legislature to conform the Florida

15         Statutes to the changes made by the act;

16         providing an effective date.

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18         WHEREAS, in recognition of the importance of the

19  state's role in providing services for its young people and in

20  order to signify the importance of providing services that

21  include assessing and treating young people for drug abuse, as

22  well as meeting the physical, mental health, and social

23  services needs of the youth of this state, the Legislature

24  renames the Department of Juvenile Justice as the "Department

25  of Juvenile Services," NOW, THEREFORE,

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

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29         Section 1.  Section 20.316, Florida Statutes, is

30  amended to read:

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 1         20.316  Department of Juvenile Services Justice.--There

 2  is created a Department of Juvenile Services Justice.

 3         (1)  SECRETARY OF JUVENILE SERVICES JUSTICE.--

 4         (a)  The head of the Department of Juvenile Services

 5  Justice is the Secretary of Juvenile Services Justice. The

 6  secretary of the department shall be appointed by the Governor

 7  and shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor.

 8         (b)  The Secretary of Juvenile Services Justice is

 9  responsible for planning, coordinating, and managing the

10  delivery of all programs and services within the juvenile

11  services justice continuum. For purposes of this section, the

12  term "juvenile services justice continuum" means all

13  children-in-need-of-services programs;

14  families-in-need-of-services programs; other prevention, early

15  intervention, and diversion programs; detention centers and

16  related programs and facilities; community-based residential

17  commitment and nonresidential programs; and delinquency

18  institutions provided or funded by the department.

19         (c)  The Secretary of Juvenile Services Justice shall:

20         1.  Ensure that juvenile services justice continuum

21  programs and services are implemented according to legislative

22  intent; state and federal laws, rules, and regulations;

23  statewide program standards; and performance objectives by

24  reviewing and monitoring regional and circuit program

25  operations and providing technical assistance to those

26  programs.

27         2.  Identify the need for and recommend the funding and

28  implementation of an appropriate mix of programs and services

29  within the juvenile services justice continuum, including

30  prevention, diversion, nonresidential and residential

31  commitment programs, training schools, and conditional release

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 1  programs and services, with an overlay of educational,

 2  vocational, alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health services

 3  where appropriate.

 4         3.  Provide for program research, development, and

 5  planning.

 6         4.  Develop staffing and workload standards and

 7  coordinate staff development and training.

 8         5.  Develop budget and resource allocation

 9  methodologies and strategies.

10         6.  Establish program policies and rules and ensure

11  that those policies and rules encourage cooperation,

12  collaboration, and information sharing with community partners

13  in the juvenile services justice system to the extent

14  authorized by law.

15         7.  Develop funding sources external to state

16  government.

17         8.  Obtain, approve, monitor, and coordinate research

18  and program development grants.

19         9.  Enter into contracts.

20         10.  Monitor all state-funded programs, grants,

21  appropriations, or activities that are designed to prevent

22  juvenile crime, delinquency, gang membership, or status

23  offense behaviors and all state-funded programs, grants,

24  appropriations, or activities that are designed to prevent a

25  child from becoming a "child in need of services," as defined

26  in chapter 984, in order to effect the goals and policies of

27  the State Comprehensive Plan regarding children and regarding

28  governmental efficiency, and in order to determine:

29         a.  The number of youth served by such state-funded

30  programs, grants, appropriations, or activities;

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 1         b.  The number of youth who complete such state-funded

 2  programs, grants, appropriations, or activities;

 3         c.  The number and percentage of youth who are referred

 4  for delinquency while participating in such state-funded

 5  programs, grants, appropriations, or activities;

 6         d.  The number and percentage of youth who are referred

 7  for delinquency within 6 months after completing such

 8  state-funded programs, grants, appropriations, or activities.

 9         (2)  DEPARTMENT PROGRAMS.--The following programs are

10  established within the Department of Juvenile Services

11  Justice:

12         (a)  Prevention and Victim Services.

13         (b)  Intake and Detention.

14         (c)  Residential and Correctional Facilities.

15         (d)  Probation and Community Corrections.

16         (e)  Administration.

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18  The secretary may establish assistant secretary positions and

19  a chief of staff position as necessary to administer the

20  requirements of this section.

21         (3)  JUVENILE SERVICES JUSTICE OPERATING CIRCUITS.--The

22  department shall plan and administer its programs through a

23  substate structure that conforms to the boundaries of the

24  judicial circuits prescribed in s. 26.021. A county may seek

25  placement in a juvenile services justice operating circuit

26  other than as prescribed in s. 26.021 for participation in the

27  Prevention and Victim Services Program and the Probation and

28  Community Corrections Program by making a request of the chief

29  circuit judge in each judicial circuit affected by such

30  request. Upon a showing that geographic proximity, community

31  identity, or other legitimate concern for efficiency of

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 1  operations merits alternative placement, each affected chief

 2  circuit judge may authorize the execution of an interagency

 3  agreement specifying the alternative juvenile services justice

 4  operating circuit in which the county is to be placed and the

 5  basis for the alternative placement. Upon the execution of

 6  said interagency agreement by each affected chief circuit

 7  judge, the secretary may administratively place a county in an

 8  alternative juvenile services justice operating circuit

 9  pursuant to the agreement.

10         (4)  INFORMATION SYSTEMS.--

11         (a)  The Department of Juvenile Services Justice shall

12  develop, in consultation with the Criminal and Juvenile

13  Justice Information Systems Council under s. 943.08, a

14  juvenile services justice information system that which shall

15  provide information concerning the department's activities and

16  programs.

17         (b)  In establishing the computing and network

18  infrastructure for the development of the information system,

19  the department shall develop a system design to set the

20  direction for the information system.  That design shall

21  include not only department system requirements but also data

22  exchange requirements of other state and local juvenile

23  services justice system organizations.

24         (c)  The department shall implement a distributed

25  system architecture which shall be defined in its agency

26  strategic plan.

27         (d)  The management information system shall, at a

28  minimum:

29         1.  Facilitate case management of juveniles referred to

30  or placed in the department's custody.

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 1         2.  Provide timely access to current data and computing

 2  capacity to support outcome evaluation, legislative oversight,

 3  the Juvenile Services Justice Estimating Conference, and other

 4  research.

 5         3.  Provide automated support to the quality assurance

 6  and program review functions.

 7         4.  Provide automated support to the contract

 8  management process.

 9         5.  Provide automated support to the facility

10  operations management process.

11         6.  Provide automated administrative support to

12  increase efficiency, provide the capability of tracking

13  expenditures of funds by the department or contracted service

14  providers that are eligible for federal reimbursement, and

15  reduce forms and paperwork.

16         7.  Facilitate connectivity, access, and utilization of

17  information among various state agencies, and other state,

18  federal, local, and private agencies, organizations, and

19  institutions.

20         8.  Provide electronic public access to juvenile

21  services justice information, which is not otherwise made

22  confidential by law or exempt from the provisions of s.

23  119.07(1).

24         9.  Provide a system for the training of information

25  system users and user groups.

26         (e)  The department shall aggregate, on a quarterly and

27  an annual basis, the program information, demographic, program

28  utilization rate, and statistical data of the youth served

29  into a descriptive report and shall disseminate the quarterly

30  and annual reports to substantive committees of the House of

31  Representatives and the Senate.

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 1         (f)  The department shall provide an annual report on

 2  the juvenile services justice information system to the

 3  Criminal and Juvenile Justice Information Systems Council. The

 4  council shall review and forward the report, along with its

 5  comments, to the appropriate substantive and appropriations

 6  committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate

 7  delineating the development status of the system and other

 8  information necessary for funding policy formulation.

 9         (g)  The department shall include in its annual budget

10  request a comprehensive summary of costs involved in the

11  establishment of the information system and cost savings

12  associated with its implementation.  The budget request must

13  also include a complete inventory of staff, equipment, and

14  facility resources for development and maintenance of the

15  system.

16         Section 2.  Subsection (1) of section 216.133, Florida

17  Statutes, is amended to read:

18         216.133  Definitions; ss. 216.133-216.137.--As used in

19  ss. 216.133-216.137:

20         (1)  "Consensus estimating conference" includes the

21  Economic Estimating Conference, the Demographic Estimating

22  Conference, the Revenue Estimating Conference, the Education

23  Estimating Conference, the Criminal Justice Estimating

24  Conference, the Juvenile Services Justice Estimating

25  Conference, the Child Welfare System Estimating Conference,

26  the Occupational Forecasting Conference, the School Readiness

27  Program Estimating Conference, the Self-Insurance Estimating

28  Conference, the Florida Retirement System Actuarial Assumption

29  Conference, and the Social Services Estimating Conference.

30         Section 3.  Subsection (8) of section 216.136, Florida

31  Statutes, is amended to read:

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 1         216.136  Consensus estimating conferences; duties and

 2  principals.--

 3         (8)  JUVENILE SERVICES JUSTICE ESTIMATING CONFERENCE.--

 4         (a)  Duties.--The Juvenile Services Justice Estimating

 5  Conference shall develop such official information relating to

 6  the juvenile services justice system of the state as is

 7  determined by the conference principals to be needed for the

 8  state planning and budgeting system.  This information shall

 9  include, but is not limited to:  estimates of juvenile

10  delinquency caseloads and workloads; estimates for secure,

11  nonsecure, and home juvenile detention placements; estimates

12  of workloads in the juvenile sections in the offices of the

13  state attorneys and public defenders; estimates of mental

14  health and substance abuse treatment relating to juveniles;

15  and such other information as is determined by the conference

16  principals to be needed for the state planning and budgeting

17  system.

18         (b)  Principals.--The Executive Office of the Governor,

19  the Office of Economic and Demographic Research, and

20  professional staff who have forecasting expertise from the

21  Department of Juvenile Services Justice, the Department of

22  Children and Family Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health

23  Program Offices, the Department of Law Enforcement, the Senate

24  Appropriations Committee staff, the House of Representatives

25  Appropriations Committee staff, or their designees, are the

26  principals of the Juvenile Services Justice Estimating

27  Conference. The responsibility of presiding over sessions of

28  the conference shall be rotated among the principals. To

29  facilitate policy and legislative recommendations, the

30  conference may call upon the appropriate legislative staff.

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 1         Section 4.  The Division of Statutory Revision of the

 2  Office of Legislative Services is requested to prepare a

 3  reviser's bill for introduction at a subsequent session of the

 4  Legislature to conform the Florida Statutes to the changes

 5  made by this act.

 6         Section 5.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.

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 9                          SENATE SUMMARY

10    Renames the Department of Juvenile Justice as the
      "Department of Juvenile Services" and the Secretary of
11    Juvenile Justice as the "Secretary of Juvenile Services."
      Renames the Juvenile Justice Estimating Conference as the
12    "Juvenile Services Estimating Conference." Requests the
      Division of Statutory Revision to prepare a reviser's
13    bill to conform the Florida Statutes to the changes made
      by the act.
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