The Florida Senate

402.55  Management fellows program.--

(1)  It is the intent of the Legislature to provide a program whereby the ¹Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services may identify, designate, train, and promote employees with high levels of administrative and management potential in order to meet the need of the department for broad-based administrative and managerial knowledge and skills in key positions within the department.

(2)  The department is authorized to establish a management fellows program in order to provide highly qualified career candidates for key administrative and managerial positions in the department. Such program shall include, but is not limited to:

(a)  The identification annually by the secretary, the ²Deputy Secretary for Administration, the ³Deputy Secretary for Human Services, the ⁴Deputy Secretary for Health, and the district administrator in each district of one high-potential career service employee each, to be designated and appointed to serve as a full-time health and rehabilitative services management fellow for a period of 1 year.

(b)  The design, development, implementation, and monitoring of a full-time, 1-year placement program based on a self-motivated enrichment plan for each respective fellow in various units of the department.

(c)  The participation of each management fellow in on-the-job management training and inservice administrative training project assignments, supplemented by periodic management workshops, seminars, and courses within and outside the department.

(3)  The department shall develop, implement, operate, and monitor the management fellows program provided by this act within existing resources, including the annual identification and allocation of resources necessary to support the training activities of each management fellow.

(4)  Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 110, the department may grant special pay increases to management fellows upon successful completion of the program.

(5)  The department may adopt rules to implement this section.

History.--s. 10, ch. 91-158.

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.

²Note.--Section 5, ch. 96-403, redesignates the Deputy Secretary for Administration as the Assistant Secretary for Administration.

³Note.--Section 5, ch. 96-403, deletes all references to "Deputy Secretary for Human Services" from s. 20.19.

⁴Note.--Section 5, ch. 96-403, deletes all references to "Deputy Secretary for Health" from s. 20.19(3).