The Florida Senate

445.045  Development of an Internet-based system for information technology industry promotion and workforce recruitment.--

(1)  The Department of Labor and Employment Security shall facilitate efforts to ensure the development and maintenance of a website that promotes and markets the information technology industry in this state. The website shall be designed to inform the public concerning the scope of the information technology industry in the state and shall also be designed to address the workforce needs of the industry. The website shall include, through links or actual content, information concerning information technology businesses in this state, including links to such businesses; information concerning employment available at these businesses; and the means by which a jobseeker may post a resume on the website.

(2)  The Department of Labor and Employment Security shall coordinate with the State Technology Office and the Workforce Development Board of Enterprise Florida, Inc., to ensure links, where feasible and appropriate, to existing job information websites maintained by the state and state agencies and to ensure that information technology positions offered by the state and state agencies are posted on the information technology website.

History.--s. 35, ch. 2000-164.