Florida Senate - 2009 CS for SB 784
By the Committee on Education Pre-K - 12; and Senator Siplin
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to job opportunities for youth;
3 providing legislative intent to support statewide
4 vocational training and placement provided to at-risk
5 youth through the Jobs for Florida’s Graduates
6 program; requiring that a proposal for funding a
7 statewide summer program for youth employment be
8 submitted to the Florida Endowment Foundation for
9 Florida’s Graduates; providing criteria concerning the
10 proposal; requiring a report to the Legislature;
11 providing for the Florida Endowment Foundation for
12 Florida’s Graduates to be the fiscal agent for the
13 Jobs for Florida’s Graduates program; amending s.
14 561.121, F.S.; revising the percentage of monthly
15 collections of the excise taxes on alcoholic beverages
16 to be deposited into the Alcoholic Beverage and
17 Tobacco Trust Fund; requiring a certain percentage of
18 net collections to be deposited into the Grants and
19 Donations Trust Fund within the Florida Endowment
20 Foundation for Florida’s Graduates to operate the
21 statewide summer program for youth employment;
22 amending s. 563.05, F.S.; clarifying a unit of
23 measurement; providing an effective date.
24
25 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
26
27 Section 1. Jobs for Florida’s Graduates; legislative
28 intent; statewide program; fiscal oversight.—
29 (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide support
30 and funding for programs conducted by Jobs for Florida’s
31 Graduates (JFG). JFG provides paid internships, educational, and
32 developmental skills to youth between 16 and 18 years of age who
33 have significant family troubles; have significant school
34 troubles; have experienced drug or alcohol use, or both; or
35 exhibit predelinquent behavior.
36 (2) In order to receive funding, JFG shall submit to the
37 Florida Endowment Foundation for Florida’s Graduates, by
38 September 1, 2009, a proposal for funding a statewide summer
39 program for youth employment. The program shall include a summer
40 internship of at least 8 weeks, student-selection criteria,
41 required parental involvement, and followup during the school
42 year. By January 1, 2010, and each January 1 thereafter, JFG
43 shall provide to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of
44 the House of Representatives a report that includes, but need
45 not be limited to, an itemized list of program costs, the number
46 and types of businesses or partnerships that provide summer
47 internships, and the following statistics concerning the youth
48 served by the program: high school retention and graduation
49 rates, postsecondary education or vocational training, job
50 placement, increase in basic skills, mastery of work and life
51 skills, and increase or decrease in juvenile crime.
52 (3) The Florida Endowment Foundation for Florida’s
53 Graduates shall be the fiscal agent for the Jobs for Florida’s
54 Graduates program.
55 Section 2. Subsection (1) of section 561.121, Florida
56 Statutes, is amended to read:
57 561.121 Deposit of revenue.—
58 (1) All state funds collected pursuant to ss. 563.05,
59 564.06, and 565.12 shall be paid into the State Treasury and
60 disbursed in the following manner:
61 (a)1. One and eight-hundred-fifty-thousandths Two percent
62 of monthly collections of the excise taxes on alcoholic
63 beverages established in ss. 563.05, 564.06, and 565.12 shall be
64 deposited into the Alcoholic Beverage and Tobacco Trust Fund to
65 meet the division’s appropriation for the state fiscal year.
66 2. Six and nine-hundred-fifty-thousandths percent of net
67 collections shall be deposited into the Grants and Donations
68 Trust Fund within the Florida Endowment Foundation for Florida’s
69 Graduates to operate the statewide youth summer employment
70 program.
71 (b) The remainder of the funds collected pursuant to ss.
72 563.05, 564.06, and 565.12 shall be credited to the General
73 Revenue Fund.
74 Section 3. Section 563.05, Florida Statutes, is amended to
75 read:
76 563.05 Excise taxes on malt beverages.—As to malt beverages
77 containing 0.5 percent or more of alcohol by volume, there shall
78 be paid by all manufacturers, distributors, and vendors, as
79 herein defined, a tax of 48 cents per gallon upon all such
80 beverages in bulk or in kegs or barrels; and, when such
81 beverages are sold in containers of less than 1 gallon, the tax
82 will be 6 cents on each pint, the metric equivalent, or fraction
83 thereof in the container. However, the excise taxes required to
84 be paid by this section upon malt beverages are not required to
85 be paid upon such beverages when they are sold to post
86 exchanges, ship service stores, and base exchanges located in
87 military, naval, or air force reservations within this state.
88 Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.