Florida Senate - 2011 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SPB 7202
Barcode 651020
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: WD .
04/01/2011 .
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The Committee on Budget (Wise and Gaetz) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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4 Delete lines 412 - 432
5 and insert:
6 Section 1. Type two transfers from the Agency for Workforce
7 Innovation.—
8 (1) All powers, duties, functions, records, offices,
9 personnel, associated administrative support positions,
10 property, pending issues, existing contracts, administrative
11 authority, administrative rules, and unexpended balances of
12 appropriations, allocations, and other funds relating to the
13 following programs in the Agency for Workforce Innovation are
14 transferred by a type two transfer, as defined in s. 20.06(2),
15 Florida Statutes, as follows:
16 (a)1. The functions and related policies and procedures of
17 the Office of Early Learning relating to the school readiness
18 system, the Child Care Executive Partnership Act, the prevailing
19 market rate of child care providers, warm-line services, the
20 Teacher Education and Compensation Helps (TEACH) scholarship
21 program, Early Head Start collaboration grants, and the infants
22 and toddlers in state-funded education and care programs.
23 2. All functions and related policies and procedures which
24 are not transferred to the Department of Children and Family
25 Services under subparagraph 1. are transferred to the Department
26 of Education.
27 (b) The Office of Unemployment Compensation is transferred
28 to Jobs Florida.
29 (c) The Office of Workforce Services is transferred to Jobs
30 Florida.
31 (2) The following trust funds are transferred:
32 (a) From the Agency for Workforce Innovation to the
33 Department of Children and Family Services, the Child Care and
34 Development Block Grant Trust Fund.
35 Delete lines 768 - 776
36 and insert:
37 (3) DIVISIONS.—The following divisions of the Department of
38 Education are established:
39 (h) The Division of Early Learning, which shall administer
40 the operational requirements of the Voluntary Prekindergarten
41 Education Program in accordance with part V of chapter 1002. The
42 division shall be directed by the Deputy Commissioner for Early
43 Learning, who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of
44 the commissioner.
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47 And the title is amended as follows:
48 Delete lines 5 - 67
49 and insert:
50 transferring functions of the Office of Early Learning
51 Services to the Department of Children and Family
52 Services and to the Department of Education;
53 transferring the Office of Unemployment Compensation
54 to Jobs Florida; transferring the Office of Workforce
55 Services to Jobs Florida; transferring the functions
56 and trust funds of the Department of Community Affairs
57 to other agencies; transferring the Florida Housing
58 Finance Corporation to Jobs Florida; transferring the
59 Division of Housing and Community Development to Jobs
60 Florida; transferring the Division of Community
61 Planning to Jobs Florida; transferring the Division of
62 Emergency Management to the Executive Office of the
63 Governor and renaming it as the “Office of Emergency
64 Management”; transferring the Florida Building
65 Commission to the Department of Business and
66 Professional Regulation; transferring the
67 responsibilities under the Florida Communities Trust
68 to the Department of Environmental Protection;
69 transferring the responsibilities under the Stan
70 Mayfield Working Waterfronts program to the Department
71 of Environmental Protection; transferring functions
72 and trust funds of the Office of Tourism, Trade, and
73 Economic Development in the Executive Office of the
74 Governor to Jobs Florida; providing legislative intent
75 with respect to the transfer of programs and
76 administrative responsibilities; providing for a
77 transition period; providing for coordination between
78 the Agency for Workforce Innovation, the Department of
79 Community Affairs, the Office of Tourism, Trade, and
80 Economic Development, and other state agencies to
81 implement the transition; requiring that the Governor
82 appoint a representative to coordinate the transition
83 plan; requiring that the Governor submit information
84 and obtain waivers as required by federal law;
85 authorizing the Governor to transfer funds and
86 positions between agencies upon approval from the
87 Legislative Budget Commission to implement the act;
88 directing the nonprofit entities to enter into a plan
89 for merger; transferring the functions of Space
90 Florida to the Jobs Florida Partnership, Inc.;
91 providing legislative intent with respect to the
92 merger of Enterprise Florida, Inc., the Florida Sports
93 Foundation Inc., the Florida Tourism Industry
94 Marketing Corporation d/b/a VISIT Florida, the Florida
95 Black Business Investment Board, Inc., and the
96 transfer of Space Florida to the Jobs Florida
97 Partnership, Inc.; providing for a transition period;
98 requiring that the Governor appoint a representative
99 to coordinate the transition plan; providing for the
100 transfer of any funds held in trust by the entities to
101 be transferred to the Jobs Florida Partnership, Inc.,
102 to be used for their original purposes; requiring that
103 the Governor submit information and obtain waivers as
104 required by federal law; providing a directive to the
105 Division of Statutory Revision to prepare conforming
106 legislation; creating s. 14.2016, F.S.; establishing
107 the Office of Emergency Management as a separate
108 budget entity within the Executive Office of the
109 Governor; providing for the director of the office to
110 serve at the pleasure of the Governor; amending s.
111 20.15, F.S.; establishing the Division of Early
112 Learning within the Department of Education; providing
113 for the office to administer the