Florida Senate - 2026 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS/SB 474, 1st Eng.
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
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Floor: 1/AD/RM . Floor: C
03/12/2026 02:26 PM . 03/12/2026 06:51 PM
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Senator Wright moved the following:
1 Senate Amendment to House Amendment (656697) (with title
2 amendment)
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4 Delete lines 114 - 183
5 and insert:
6 General-Air, and State Quartermaster, Director of Human
7 Resources, Director of Legislative Affairs, Inspector General,
8 Executive Officer, and two positions serving as a Special
9 Projects Officer of the Florida National Guard additional
10 directors as designated by the agency head, not to exceed a
11 total of 10 positions. In lieu of participation in the Senior
12 Management Service Class, such members may participate in the
13 Senior Management Service Optional Annuity Program as
14 established in subsection (6).
15 Section 7. Paragraph (m) of subsection (2) of section
16 250.10, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
17 250.10 Appointment and duties of the Adjutant General.—
18 (2) The Adjutant General shall:
19 (m) Subject to annual appropriations, administer youth
20 About Face programs and adult Forward March programs at sites to
21 be selected by the Adjutant General. Both programs must provide
22 schoolwork assistance, focusing on the skills needed to master
23 basic high school competencies and functional life skills,
24 including teaching students to work effectively in groups;
25 providing basic instruction in computer skills; teaching basic
26 problem-solving, decisionmaking, and reasoning skills; teaching
27 how the business world and free enterprise work through computer
28 simulations; and teaching home finance and budgeting and other
29 daily living skills.
30 1. About Face is a summer and year-round after-school life
31 preparation program for economically disadvantaged and at-risk
32 youths from 13 through 17 years of age. The program must provide
33 training in academic study skills, and the basic skills that
34 businesses require for employment consideration.
35 2. Forward March is a job-readiness program for
36 economically disadvantaged participants who are directed to
37 Forward March by the local workforce development boards. The
38 Forward March program shall provide training on topics that
39 directly relate to the skills required for real-world success.
40 The program shall emphasize functional life skills, computer
41 literacy, interpersonal relationships, critical-thinking skills,
42 business skills, preemployment and work maturity skills, job
43 search skills, exploring careers activities, how to be a
44 successful and effective employee, and some job-specific skills.
45 The program also shall provide extensive opportunities for
46 participants to practice generic job skills in a supervised work
47 setting. Upon completion of the program, Forward March shall
48 return participants to the local workforce development boards
49 for placement in a job placement pool.
50 Section 8. Subsections (4), (5), and (6) of section
51 250.116, Florida Statutes, are amended, and subsection (7) is
52 added to that section, to read:
53 250.116 Soldiers and Airmen Assistance Program.—
54 (4) ELIGIBILITY.—Persons eligible for assistance from the
55 program include:
56 (a) Persons eligible for assistance from the program
57 include servicemembers who are members of the Florida National
58 Guard who are:
59 1. traditional drilling guardsmen on state active duty or
60 on Title 32 United States Code duty, who otherwise do not
61 qualify for the assistance programs available to servicemembers
62 serving under Title 10 United States Code, and who demonstrate
63 valid financial need, and their eligible beneficiaries, and such
64 persons are authorized to apply for and receive financial
65 assistance from the program, as administered by the Florida
66 National Guard Foundation’s board of directors and its governing
67 bylaws, contingent upon the availability of funds serving in the
68 Global War on Terrorism or Overseas Contingency Operation or who
69 request assistance within 120 days after the termination of
70 orders for such service and return to their home of record.
71 2. Deployed by the Federal Government and participating in
72 state operations for homeland defense or request assistance
73 within 120 days after the termination of orders for such service
74 and return to their home of record.
75 (b)1. As used in this subsection, the term “beneficiary”
76 means the current spouse, dependent children, or other
77 beneficiaries as designated in the servicemember’s
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80 And the title is amended as follows:
81 Delete line 265
82 and insert:
83 amending s. 121.055, F.S.; revising the list of
84 military positions