Florida Senate - 2011 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SPB 7202
Barcode 308046
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
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)
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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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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