Bill > H7063

Introduced Session

An act relating to child welfare; providing a short title; amending s. 20.19, F.S.; requiring the Department of Children and Families to establish performance metrics; specifying goals that must be established; revising and providing duties of community alliances; revising membership of community alliances; creating s. 39.0143, F.S.; requiring the department to establish and apply a methodology to rate the performance of all entities working together as circuit-level child welfare systems; specifying requirements for such rating system; requiring the department to include the ratings in an annual report and provide such report to specified entities; permitting the ratings to be used as the basis for the payment of performance incentives; amending s. 39.3065, F.S.; requiring sheriffs providing certain services to adopt the child welfare practice model; requiring the department and certain sheriffs to monitor program performance and meet, at least quarterly, to collaborate on specified quality assurance and initiatives; requiring the department to conduct an annual evaluation of the sheriffs' program performance based on certain criteria; requiring the department to submit an annual report on certain information by a specified date; providing report requirements; providing for future repeal; creating ss. 211.0252, 212.1833, 561.1212, and 624.51056, F.S.; authorizing a tax credit for certain contributions made to an eligible charitable organization with certain restrictions; amending s. 220.02, F.S.; revising legislative intent; amending ss. 220.13 and 220.186, F.S.; conforming cross-references to changes made by the act; creating s. 220.1876, F.S.; authorizing a tax credit for certain contributions made to an eligible organization with certain restrictions; providing requirements for applying a credit when the taxpayer requests an extension; amending s. 402.402, F.S.; requiring the department to implement certain policies and programs; requiring the annual report to include information on professional advancement of child protective investigators and supervisors; requiring attorneys contracting with the department to receive certain training within a specified time; creating s. 402.62, F.S.; creating the Children's Promise tax credit; providing definitions; providing requirements for designation as an eligible charitable organization; specifying certain organizations that may not be designated as an eligible charitable organization; providing responsibilities of eligible charitable organizations receiving contributions under the tax credit; providing responsibilities of the department related to the tax credit; providing guidelines for the application of, limitations to, and transfers of the tax credit; providing for the preservation of the tax credit under certain circumstances; authorizing the Department of Revenue, the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, and the Department of Children and Families to develop a cooperative agreement to administer the tax credit; providing the Department of Revenue, the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, and the Department of Children and Families rulemaking authority; authorizing the Department of Revenue and the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to share certain information as needed to administer the tax credit program; creating s. 402.715, F.S.; requiring the department to establish an Office of Quality; providing duties of the office; amending s. 402.7305, F.S.; removing limitations on monitoring of child- caring or child-placing services providers; amending s. 409.988, F.S.; revising the duties of a lead agency; amending s. 409.996, F.S.; adding responsibilities to the department for contracts regarding care for children in the child welfare system; specifying additional requirements for contracts; authorizing the department to provide technical assistance to lead agencies; authorizing the department to contract for the provision of children's legal services; requiring the contracted attorneys to adopt the child welfare practice model and operate in the same manner as attorneys employed by the department; requiring the department and the contracted attorneys to monitor program performance; requiring the department to conduct an annual evaluation based on certain criteria; requiring the department to submit an annual report to the Governor and Legislature by a specified date; providing for future repeal; revising requirements regarding the quality assurance program for contracted services to dependent children; deleting obsolete language; requiring the department to implement pilot projects to improve child welfare outcomes in specified judicial circuits; requiring the department to establish performance metrics and standards to implement the pilot projects; requiring lead agencies in specified judicial circuits to provide certain data to the department each quarter; requiring the department to review such data; authorizing the department to advance incentive funding to certain lead agencies that meet specified requirements; requiring the department to include certain results in a specified report; providing for future expiration; amending s. 409.997, F.S.; specifying types of data that may be used by the department in the accountability program; adding contract compliance as a use of the data; allowing the requirements of the monitoring program to be incorporated into the contract management program of the department; amending s. 1004.615, F.S.; requiring the Florida Institute for Child Welfare and the Florida State University College of Social Work to design and implement a specified curriculum; providing requirements of the institute regarding the curriculum; requiring the institute to contract for certain evaluations; requiring certain entities to design and implement a career-long professional development curriculum for child welfare professionals; requiring the institute to establish a consulting program for child welfare organizations; authorizing the Department of Revenue to adopt emergency rules; providing an appropriation; requiring the institute to perform an analysis of the use of funding provided by the tax credit and provide a report of such analysis to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date; requiring the department to develop a career ladder for child protective investigations professionals and submit a proposal to the Legislature by a specified date; providing an effective date.

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Mel Ponder (R)*,  Delores Hogan Johnson (D),  Toby Overdorf (R),  Rick Roth (R),  Patricia Williams (D), 

Other Sponsors (3)

Died on Calendar (on 03/14/2020)

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