Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SPB 7202
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  04/01/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget (Wise) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (651020) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Delete lines 412 - 432
    5  and insert:
    6         Section 1. Type two transfers from the Agency for Workforce
    7  Innovation.—
    8         (1) All powers, duties, functions, records, offices,
    9  personnel, associated administrative support positions,
   10  property, pending issues, existing contracts, administrative
   11  authority, administrative rules, and unexpended balances of
   12  appropriations, allocations, and other funds relating to the
   13  following programs in the Agency for Workforce Innovation are
   14  transferred by a type two transfer, as defined in s. 20.06(2),
   15  Florida Statutes, as follows:
   16         (a)1. The functions and related policies and procedures of
   17  the Office of Early Learning relating to the school readiness
   18  system, the Child Care Executive Partnership Act, the prevailing
   19  market rate of child care providers, warm-line services, the
   20  Teacher Education and Compensation Helps (TEACH) scholarship
   21  program, Early Head Start collaboration grants, and the infants
   22  and toddlers in state-funded education and care programs are
   23  transferred to the Department of Children and Family Services.
   24         2. All functions and related policies and procedures which
   25  are not transferred to the Department of Children and Family
   26  Services under subparagraph 1. are transferred to the Department
   27  of Education.
   28         (b) The Office of Unemployment Compensation is transferred
   29  to Jobs Florida.
   30         (c)The Office of Workforce Services is transferred to Jobs
   31  Florida.
   32         (2) The following trust funds are transferred:
   33  (a) From the Agency for Workforce Innovation to the Department
   34  of Children and Family Services, the Child Care and Development
   35  Block Grant Trust Fund.
   36         Delete lines 768 - 776
   37  and insert:
   38         (3) DIVISIONS.—The following divisions of the Department of
   39  Education are established:
   40         (h) The Division of Early Learning, which shall administer
   41  the operational requirements of the Voluntary Prekindergarten
   42  Education Program in accordance with part V of chapter 1002. The
   43  division shall be directed by the Deputy Commissioner for Early
   44  Learning, who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of
   45  the commissioner.
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   47  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   48         And the title is amended as follows:
   49         Delete lines 5 - 67
   50  and insert:
   51         transferring functions of the Office of Early Learning
   52         Services to the Department of Children and Family
   53         Services and to the Department of Education;
   54         transferring the Office of Unemployment Compensation
   55         to Jobs Florida; transferring the Office of Workforce
   56         Services to Jobs Florida; transferring the functions
   57         and trust funds of the Department of Community Affairs
   58         to other agencies; transferring the Florida Housing
   59         Finance Corporation to Jobs Florida; transferring the
   60         Division of Housing and Community Development to Jobs
   61         Florida; transferring the Division of Community
   62         Planning to Jobs Florida; transferring the Division of
   63         Emergency Management to the Executive Office of the
   64         Governor and renaming it as the “Office of Emergency
   65         Management”; transferring the Florida Building
   66         Commission to the Department of Business and
   67         Professional Regulation; transferring the
   68         responsibilities under the Florida Communities Trust
   69         to the Department of Environmental Protection;
   70         transferring the responsibilities under the Stan
   71         Mayfield Working Waterfronts program to the Department
   72         of Environmental Protection; transferring functions
   73         and trust funds of the Office of Tourism, Trade, and
   74         Economic Development in the Executive Office of the
   75         Governor to Jobs Florida; providing legislative intent
   76         with respect to the transfer of programs and
   77         administrative responsibilities; providing for a
   78         transition period; providing for coordination between
   79         the Agency for Workforce Innovation, the Department of
   80         Community Affairs, the Office of Tourism, Trade, and
   81         Economic Development, and other state agencies to
   82         implement the transition; requiring that the Governor
   83         appoint a representative to coordinate the transition
   84         plan; requiring that the Governor submit information
   85         and obtain waivers as required by federal law;
   86         authorizing the Governor to transfer funds and
   87         positions between agencies upon approval from the
   88         Legislative Budget Commission to implement the act;
   89         directing the nonprofit entities to enter into a plan
   90         for merger; transferring the functions of Space
   91         Florida to the Jobs Florida Partnership, Inc.;
   92         providing legislative intent with respect to the
   93         merger of Enterprise Florida, Inc., the Florida Sports
   94         Foundation Inc., the Florida Tourism Industry
   95         Marketing Corporation d/b/a VISIT Florida, the Florida
   96         Black Business Investment Board, Inc., and the
   97         transfer of Space Florida to the Jobs Florida
   98         Partnership, Inc.; providing for a transition period;
   99         requiring that the Governor appoint a representative
  100         to coordinate the transition plan; providing for the
  101         transfer of any funds held in trust by the entities to
  102         be transferred to the Jobs Florida Partnership, Inc.,
  103         to be used for their original purposes; requiring that
  104         the Governor submit information and obtain waivers as
  105         required by federal law; providing a directive to the
  106         Division of Statutory Revision to prepare conforming
  107         legislation; creating s. 14.2016, F.S.; establishing
  108         the Office of Emergency Management as a separate
  109         budget entity within the Executive Office of the
  110         Governor; providing for the director of the office to
  111         serve at the pleasure of the Governor; amending s.
  112         20.15, F.S.; establishing the Division of Early
  113         Learning within the Department of Education; providing
  114         for the office to administer the