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11 The Committee on Ways and Means (Pruitt) recommended the
12 following amendment:
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
15 On page 55, lines 1 and 2, delete those lines
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18 Section 17. Paragraph (d) of subsection (4) of section
19 20.316, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
20 20.316 Department of Juvenile Justice.--There is
21 created a Department of Juvenile Justice.
22 (4) INFORMATION SYSTEMS.--
23 (d) The management information system shall, at a
24 minimum:
25 1. Facilitate case management of juveniles referred to
26 or placed in the department's custody.
27 2. Provide timely access to current data and computing
28 capacity to support outcome evaluation, legislative oversight,
29 the Juvenile Justice Estimating Conference, and other
30 research.
31 3. Provide automated support to the quality assurance
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1 and program review functions.
2 4. Provide automated support to the contract
3 management process.
4 5. Provide automated support to the facility
5 operations management process.
6 6. Provide automated administrative support to
7 increase efficiency, provide the capability of tracking
8 expenditures of funds by the department or contracted service
9 providers that are eligible for federal reimbursement, and
10 reduce forms and paperwork.
11 7. Facilitate connectivity, access, and utilization of
12 information among various state agencies, and other state,
13 federal, local, and private agencies, organizations, and
14 institutions.
15 8. Provide electronic public access to juvenile
16 justice information, which is not otherwise made confidential
17 by law or exempt from the provisions of s. 119.07(1).
18 9. Provide a system for the training of information
19 system users and user groups.
20 Section 18. Subsection (1) of section 110.1239,
21 Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
22 110.1239 State group health insurance program
23 funding.--It is the intent of the Legislature that the state
24 group health insurance program be managed, administered,
25 operated, and funded in such a manner as to maximize the
26 protection of state employee health insurance benefits.
27 Inherent in this intent is the recognition that the health
28 insurance liabilities attributable to the benefits offered
29 state employees should be fairly, orderly, and equitably
30 funded. Accordingly:
31 (1) The division shall determine the level of premiums
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1 necessary to fully fund the state group health insurance
2 program for the next fiscal year. Such determination shall be
3 made after each Self-Insurance Estimating Conference as
4 provided in s. 216.136(9)(11), but not later than December 1
5 and April 1 of each fiscal year.
6 Section 19. Subsection (1) of section 216.133, Florida
7 Statutes, is amended to read:
8 216.133 Definitions; ss. 216.133-216.137.--As used in
9 ss. 216.133-216.137:
10 (1) "Consensus estimating conference" includes the
11 Economic Estimating Conference, the Demographic Estimating
12 Conference, the Revenue Estimating Conference, the Education
13 Estimating Conference, the Criminal Justice Estimating
14 Conference, the Juvenile Justice Estimating Conference, the
15 Child Welfare System Estimating Conference, the Occupational
16 Forecasting Conference, the School Readiness Program
17 Estimating Conference, the Self-Insurance Estimating
18 Conference, the Florida Retirement System Actuarial Assumption
19 Conference, and the Social Services Estimating Conference.
20 Section 20. Subsections (4) and (5) of section
21 216.134, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
22 216.134 Consensus estimating conferences; general
23 provisions.--
24 (4) The consensus estimating conferences are within
25 the legislative branch. The membership of each consensus
26 estimating conference consists of principals and participants.
27 (a) A person designated by law as a principal may
28 preside over conference sessions, convene conference sessions,
29 request information, specify topics to be included on the
30 conference agenda, agree or withhold agreement on whether
31 information is to be official information of the conference,
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1 release official information of the conference, interpret
2 official information of the conference, and monitor errors in
3 official information of the conference.
4 (b) A participant is any person who is invited to
5 participate in the consensus estimating conference by a
6 principal. A participant shall, at the request of any
7 principal before or during any session of the conference,
8 develop alternative forecasts, collect and supply data,
9 perform analyses, or provide other information needed by the
10 conference. The conference shall consider information provided
11 by participants in developing its official information.
12 (5) All sessions and meetings of a consensus
13 estimating conference where official information is adopted
14 shall be noticed and open to the public as provided in chapter
15 286. The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House
16 of Representatives, jointly, shall be the sole judge for the
17 interpretation, implementation, and enforcement of this
18 subsection.
19 Section 21. Subsections (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), and
20 (12) of section 216.136, Florida States, are amended to read:
21 216.136 Consensus estimating conferences; duties and
22 principals.--
23 (7) CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM ESTIMATING CONFERENCE.--
24 (a) Duties.--The Child Welfare System Estimating
25 Conference shall develop such official information relating to
26 the child welfare system of the state, including forecasts of
27 child welfare caseloads, as the conference determines is
28 needed for the state planning and budgeting system. Such
29 official information may include, but is not limited to:
30 1. Estimates and projections of the number of initial
31 and additional reports of child abuse, abandonment, or neglect
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1 made to the central abuse hotline maintained by the Department
2 of Children and Family Services as established in s.
3 39.201(4). Projections may take into account other factors
4 that may influence the number of future reports to the abuse
5 hotline.
6 2. Estimates and projections of the number of children
7 who are alleged to be victims of child abuse, abandonment, or
8 neglect and are in need of emergency shelter, foster care,
9 residential group care, adoptive services, or other
10 appropriate care.
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12 In addition, the conference shall develop other official
13 information relating to the child welfare system of the state
14 which the conference determines is needed for the state
15 planning and budgeting system. The Department of Children and
16 Family Services shall provide information on the child welfare
17 system requested by the Child Welfare System Estimating
18 Conference, or individual conference principals, in a timely
19 manner.
20 (b) Principals.--The Executive Office of the Governor,
21 the coordinator of the Office of Economic and Demographic
22 Research, and professional staff who have forecasting
23 expertise from the Department of Children and Family Services,
24 the Senate, and the House of Representatives, or their
25 designees, are the principals of the Child Welfare System
26 Estimating Conference. The principal representing the
27 Executive Office of the Governor shall preside over sessions
28 of the conference.
29 (8) JUVENILE JUSTICE ESTIMATING CONFERENCE.--
30 (a) Duties.--The Juvenile Justice Estimating
31 Conference shall develop such official information relating to
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1 the juvenile justice system of the state as is determined by
2 the conference principals to be needed for the state planning
3 and budgeting system. This information shall include, but is
4 not limited to: estimates of juvenile delinquency caseloads
5 and workloads; estimates for secure, nonsecure, and home
6 juvenile detention placements; estimates of workloads in the
7 juvenile sections in the offices of the state attorneys and
8 public defenders; estimates of mental health and substance
9 abuse treatment relating to juveniles; and such other
10 information as is determined by the conference principals to
11 be needed for the state planning and budgeting system.
12 (b) Principals.--The Executive Office of the Governor,
13 the Office of Economic and Demographic Research, and
14 professional staff who have forecasting expertise from the
15 Department of Juvenile Justice, the Department of Children and
16 Family Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Program
17 Offices, the Department of Law Enforcement, the Senate
18 Appropriations Committee staff, the House of Representatives
19 Appropriations Committee staff, or their designees, are the
20 principals of the Juvenile Justice Estimating Conference. The
21 responsibility of presiding over sessions of the conference
22 shall be rotated among the principals. To facilitate policy
23 and legislative recommendations, the conference may call upon
24 the appropriate legislative staff.
25 (7) (9) WORKFORCE ESTIMATING CONFERENCE.--
26 (a) Duties.--
27 1. The Workforce Estimating Conference shall develop
28 such official information on the workforce development system
29 planning process as it relates to the personnel needs of
30 current, new, and emerging industries as the conference
31 determines is needed by the state planning and budgeting
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1 system. Such information, using quantitative and qualitative
2 research methods, must include at least: short-term and
3 long-term forecasts of employment demand for jobs by
4 occupation and industry; entry and average wage forecasts
5 among those occupations; and estimates of the supply of
6 trained and qualified individuals available or potentially
7 available for employment in those occupations, with special
8 focus upon those occupations and industries which require high
9 skills and have high entry wages and experienced wage levels.
10 In the development of workforce estimates, the conference
11 shall use, to the fullest extent possible, local occupational
12 and workforce forecasts and estimates.
13 2. The Workforce Estimating Conference shall review
14 data concerning the local and regional demands for short-term
15 and long-term employment in High-Skills/High-Wage Program
16 jobs, as well as other jobs, which data is generated through
17 surveys conducted as part of the state's Internet-based job
18 matching and labor market information system authorized under
19 s. 445.011. The conference shall consider such data in
20 developing its forecasts for statewide employment demand,
21 including reviewing the local and regional data for common
22 trends and conditions among localities or regions which may
23 warrant inclusion of a particular occupation on the statewide
24 occupational forecasting list developed by the conference.
25 Based upon its review of such survey data, the conference
26 shall also make recommendations semiannually to Workforce
27 Florida, Inc., on additions or deletions to lists of locally
28 targeted occupations approved by Workforce Florida, Inc.
29 3. During each legislative session, and at other times
30 if necessary, the Workforce Estimating Conference shall meet
31 as the Workforce Impact Conference for the purpose of
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1 determining the effects of legislation related to the state's
2 workforce and economic development efforts introduced prior to
3 and during such legislative session. In addition to the
4 designated principals of the impact conference, nonprincipal
5 participants of the impact conference shall include a
6 representative of the Florida Chamber of Commerce and other
7 interested parties. The impact conference shall use both
8 quantitative and qualitative research methods to determine the
9 impact of introduced legislation related to workforce and
10 economic development issues.
11 4. Notwithstanding subparagraph 3., the Workforce
12 Estimating Conference, for the purposes described in
13 subparagraph 1., shall meet no less than 2 times in a calendar
14 year. The first meeting shall be held in February and the
15 second meeting shall be held in August. Other meetings may be
16 scheduled as needed.
17 (b) Principals.--The Commissioner of Education, the
18 Executive Office of the Governor, the director of the Office
19 of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development, the director of
20 the Agency for Workforce Innovation, the executive director of
21 the Commission for Independent Education, the Chancellor of
22 the State University System, the chair of Workforce Florida,
23 Inc., the coordinator of the Office of Economic and
24 Demographic Research, or their designees, and professional
25 staff from the Senate and the House of Representatives who
26 have forecasting and substantive expertise, are the principals
27 of the Workforce Estimating Conference. In addition to the
28 designated principals of the conference, nonprincipal
29 participants of the conference shall include a representative
30 of the Florida Chamber of Commerce and other interested
31 parties. The principal representing the Executive Office of
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1 the Governor shall preside over the sessions of the
2 conference.
3 (8) (10) SCHOOL READINESS PROGRAM ESTIMATING
4 CONFERENCE.--
5 (a) Duties.--
6 1. The School Readiness Program Estimating Conference
7 shall develop estimates and forecasts of the unduplicated
8 count of children eligible for school readiness programs in
9 accordance with the standards of eligibility established in s.
10 411.01(6) as the conference determines are needed to support
11 the state planning, budgeting, and appropriations processes.
12 2. The Florida Partnership for School Readiness shall
13 provide information on needs and waiting lists for school
14 readiness program services requested by the School Readiness
15 Program Estimating Conference or individual conference
16 principals in a timely manner.
17 (b) Principals.--The Executive Office of the Governor,
18 the Director of Economic and Demographic Research, and
19 professional staff who have forecasting expertise from the
20 Florida Partnership for School Readiness, the Agency for
21 Workforce Innovation, the Department of Children and Family
22 Services, the Department of Education, the Senate, and the
23 House of Representatives, or their designees, are the
24 principals of the School Readiness Program Estimating
25 Conference. The principal representing the Executive Office of
26 the Governor shall preside over sessions of the conference.
27 (9) (11) SELF-INSURANCE ESTIMATING CONFERENCE.--
28 (a) Duties.--The Self-Insurance Estimating Conference
29 shall develop such official information on self-insurance
30 related issues as the conference determines is needed by the
31 state planning and budgeting system.
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1 (b) Principals.--The Executive Office of the Governor,
2 the coordinator of the Office of Economic and Demographic
3 Research, and professional staff directors of the committees
4 of the Senate and the House of Representatives who have
5 forecasting and substantive experience which have primary
6 responsibility for legislation dealing with taxation, or their
7 designees, are the principals of the Self-Insurance Estimating
8 Conference. The responsibility of presiding over sessions of
9 the conference shall be rotated among the principals.
10 (10) (12) FLORIDA RETIREMENT SYSTEM ACTUARIAL
11 ASSUMPTION CONFERENCE.--
12 (a) Duties.--The Florida Retirement System Actuarial
13 Assumption Conference shall develop official information with
14 respect to the economic and noneconomic assumptions and
15 funding methods of the Florida Retirement System necessary to
16 perform the system actuarial study undertaken pursuant to s.
17 121.031(3). Such information shall include: an analysis of
18 the actuarial assumptions and actuarial methods used in the
19 study and a determination of whether changes to the
20 assumptions or methods need to be made due to experience
21 changes or revised future forecasts.
22 (b) Principals.--The Executive Office of the Governor,
23 the coordinator of the Office of Economic and Demographic
24 Research, and professional staff of the Senate and House of
25 Representatives who have forecasting and substantive
26 expertise, or their designees, are the principals of the
27 Florida Retirement System Actuarial Assumption Conference. The
28 Executive Office of the Governor shall have the responsibility
29 of presiding over the sessions of the conference. The State
30 Board of Administration and the Division of Retirement shall
31 be participants in the conference.
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1 Section 22. Subsection (5) of section 288.7091,
2 Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
3 288.7091 Duties of the Florida Black Business
4 Investment Board, Inc.--The Florida Black Business Investment
5 Board, Inc., shall:
6 (5) Include in the criteria for loan decisions,
7 occupational forecasting results set forth in s. 216.136(7)(9)
8 which target high growth jobs;
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12 And the title is amended as follows:
13 On page 3, lines 25 through 28, delete those lines
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16 circumstances; amending s. 20.316, F.S.,
17 relating to the Department of Juvenile Justice
18 information systems; correcting a reference;
19 amending s. 110.1239, F.S.; correcting a cross
20 reference; amending s. 216.133, F.S.; deleting
21 references to conform; amending s. 216.134,
22 F.S.; stipulating that consensus estimating
23 conferences are within the legislative branch;
24 revising provisions relating to public meetings
25 of consensus estimating conferences; amending
26 s. 216.136, F.S.; deleting provisions for the
27 Child Welfare System Estimating Conference and
28 the Juvenile Justice Estimating Conference;
29 amending s. 288.7091, F.S.; correcting a cross
30 reference; amending s. 216.162,
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