The Florida Senate

446.604  One-Stop Career Centers.--

(1)  The Department of Management Services shall coordinate among the agencies a plan for a One-Stop Career Center Electronic Network made up of One-Stop Career Centers that are operated by the Department of Labor and Employment Security, the ¹Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, the Department of Education, and other authorized public or private for-profit or not-for-profit agents. The plan shall identify resources within existing revenues to establish and support such electronic network for service delivery that includes the Florida Communities Network.

(2)  The network shall assure that a uniform method is used to determine eligibility for and management of services provided by agencies that conduct workforce development activities. The Department of Management Services shall develop strategies to allow access to the databases and information management systems of the following systems in order to link information in those databases with the One-Stop Career Centers:

(a)  The Unemployment Compensation System of the Department of Labor and Employment Security.

(b)  The Job Service System of the Department of Labor and Employment Security.

(c)  The FLORIDA System and the components related to Aid to Families with Dependent Children, food stamps, and Medicaid eligibility.

(d)  The Workers' Compensation System of the Department of Labor and Employment Security.

(e)  The Student Financial Assistance System of the Department of Education.

(f)  Enrollment in the public postsecondary education system.

The systems shall be fully coordinated at both the state and local levels by July 1, 1999.

History.--s. 10, ch. 96-404.

¹Note.--The Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services was redesignated as the Department of Children and Family Services by s. 5, ch. 96-403, and the Department of Health was created by s. 8, ch. 96-403.