Florida Senate - 2006 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 840
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11 The Conference Committee on CS for SB 840 recommended the
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14 Conference Committee Amendment (with title amendment)
15 Delete everything after the enacting clause
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18 Section 1. Section 402.3017, Florida Statutes, is
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20 402.3017 Teacher Education and Compensation Helps
21 (TEACH) scholarship program.--
22 (1) The Legislature finds that the level of early
23 child care teacher education and training is a key predictor
24 for determining program quality. The Legislature also finds
25 that low wages for child care workers prevent many from
26 obtaining increased training and education and contribute to
27 high turnover rates. The Legislature therefore intends to help
28 fund a program which links teacher training and education to
29 compensation and commitment to the field of early childhood
30 education.
31 (2) The Agency for Workforce Innovation Department of
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1 Children and Family Services is authorized to contract for the
2 administration of the Teacher Education and Compensation Helps
3 (TEACH) scholarship program, which provides educational
4 scholarships to caregivers and administrators of early
5 childhood programs, family day care homes, and large family
6 child care homes.
7 (3) The agency department shall adopt rules as
8 necessary to implement this section.
9 (4) For the 2005-2006 fiscal year only, the Agency for
10 Workforce Innovation shall administer this section. This
11 subsection expires July 1, 2006.
12 Section 2. Subsection (9) of section 411.01, Florida
13 Statutes, is amended to read:
14 411.01 School readiness programs; early learning
15 coalitions.--
16 (9) FUNDING; SCHOOL READINESS PROGRAM.--
17 (a) It is the intent of this section to establish an
18 integrated and quality seamless service delivery system for
19 all publicly funded early childhood education and child care
20 programs operating in this state.
21 (b)1. The Agency for Workforce Innovation shall
22 administer school readiness funds, plans, and policies and
23 shall prepare and submit a unified budget request for the
24 school readiness system in accordance with chapter 216.
25 2. All instructions to early learning coalitions for
26 administering this section shall emanate from the Agency for
27 Workforce Innovation in accordance with the policies of the
28 Legislature.
29 (c) The Agency for Workforce Innovation shall
30 recommend adopt a formula for the allocation among the early
31 learning coalitions of all state and federal school readiness
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1 funds for children participating in public or private school
2 readiness programs based upon equity and performance. The
3 allocation formula must be submitted to the Governor, and the
4 chair of the Senate Ways and Means Committee or its successor,
5 and the chair of the House Fiscal Council or its successor no
6 later than January 1 of each year. The Legislature shall
7 specify in the annual General Appropriations Act any changes
8 from the allocation methodology for the prior fiscal year
9 which must be used by the Agency for Workforce Innovation in
10 allocating the appropriations provided in the General
11 Appropriations Act Legislative Budget Commission. Upon
12 approval, the Legislative Budget Commission shall authorize
13 the Agency for Workforce Innovation to distribute funds in
14 accordance with the allocation formula. For fiscal year
15 2004-2005, the Agency for Workforce Innovation shall allocate
16 funds to the early learning coalitions consistent with the
17 fiscal year 2003-2004 funding allocations to the school
18 readiness coalitions.
19 (d) All state, federal, and required local
20 maintenance-of-effort or matching funds provided to an early
21 learning coalition for purposes of this section shall be used
22 by the coalition for implementation of its school readiness
23 plan, including the hiring of staff to effectively operate the
24 coalition's school readiness program. As part of plan approval
25 and periodic plan review, the Agency for Workforce Innovation
26 shall require that administrative costs be kept to the minimum
27 necessary for efficient and effective administration of the
28 school readiness plan, but total administrative expenditures
29 must not exceed 5 percent unless specifically waived by the
30 Agency for Workforce Innovation. The Agency for Workforce
31 Innovation shall annually report to the Legislature any
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1 problems relating to administrative costs.
2 (e) The Agency for Workforce Innovation shall annually
3 distribute, to a maximum extent practicable, all eligible
4 funds provided under this section as block grants to the early
5 learning coalitions.
6 (f) State funds appropriated for the school readiness
7 program may not be used for the construction of new facilities
8 or the purchase of buses. The Agency for Workforce Innovation
9 shall present to the Legislature recommendations for providing
10 necessary transportation services for school readiness
11 programs.
12 (g) All cost savings and all revenues received through
13 a mandatory sliding fee scale shall be used to help fund each
14 early learning coalition's school readiness program.
15 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.
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19 And the title is amended as follows:
20 Delete everything before the enacting clause
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23 A bill to be entitled
24 An act relating to early childhood education;
25 amending s. 402.3017, F.S.; authorizing the
26 Agency for Workforce Innovation to contract for
27 the administration of the Teacher Education and
28 Compensation Helps (TEACH) scholarship program;
29 providing for rulemaking; deleting provisions
30 that limit agency administration of the program
31 to the 2005-2006 fiscal year; amending s.
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1 411.01, F.S.; requiring the Agency for
2 Workforce Innovation to recommend a school
3 readiness equity allocation formula; providing
4 for changes in the allocation of funds to be
5 specified in the General Appropriations Act;
6 eliminating approval of the allocation formula
7 by the Legislative Budget Commission;
8 eliminating an obsolete provision; providing an
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