Bill > H0791

Introduced Session

An act relating to workforce and postsecondary education; amending s. 446.011, F.S.; providing legislative intent; amending s. 446.021, F.S.; defining and redefining terms; amending s. 446.032, F.S.; deleting a delegation of rulemaking authority to the Department of Education; requiring the department to provide specified assistance to postsecondary education institutions; requiring uniform minimum requirements to be uniform across all occupations; making technical changes; amending s. 446.041, F.S.; revising and expanding the department's duties with respect to apprenticeship and preapprenticeship programs; removing a requirement that the department supervise specified apprenticeship programs; requiring the department to ensure that equal opportunity for specified persons is provided for in certain programs; requiring the department to adopt certain rules; amending s. 446.045, F.S.; requiring a representative of the Office of Apprenticeship of the United States Department of Labor, rather than the state director of the office, to serve ex officio as a specified member of the State Apprenticeship Advisory Council; requiring the Governor to fill specified vacancies on the council; authorizing a designee of the council's hb0791-00 HB 791 chair to call a meeting of the council; making technical changes; amending s. 446.051, F.S.; providing that certain program sponsors are responsible for specified duties; encouraging district school boards and postsecondary education institutions to cooperate with and assist in providing registered program sponsors with certain items; making technical changes; amending s. 446.052, F.S.; deleting a requirement that the department administer certain provisions in cooperation with specified entities; encouraging district school boards, postsecondary education institutions, and registered program sponsors to cooperate in developing and establishing specified programs; encouraging the department, district school boards, and postsecondary education institutions to work together with specified apprenticeship programs in order that individuals completing the programs may be able to receive certain credit; encouraging postsecondary education institutions to work together with certain associate, career, or degree programs to ensure specified individuals may be able to receive certain credit; making a technical change; amending s. 446.071, F.S.; requiring the department to approve certain apprenticeship sponsors; deleting the definition of hb0791-00 HB 791 the term "need"; expanding the kinds of organizations which may be apprenticeship sponsors; making a technical change; amending s. 446.081, F.S.; providing for the inviolability of executive orders; repealing s. 446.091, F.S., relating to on-the-job training programs; amending s. 446.092, F.S.; revising the characteristics apprenticeable occupations must possess; amending s. 1003.01, F.S.; defining the term "work-based learning"; amending s. 1003.491, F.S.; authorizing the department to adopt rules; amending s. 1004.02, F.S.; defining the term "cooperative method of instruction"; amending s. 1007.23, F.S.; requiring the statewide articulation agreement to establish three mathematics pathways for students by aligning mathematics courses to programs, meta-majors, and careers; requiring a representative committee composed of certain entities to collaborate to identify such pathways and the mathematics course sequence within each pathway which align to the mathematics skills needed for success; amending s. 1007.263, F.S.; requiring admissions counseling to use certain tests to measure achievement of college-level communication and computation by students entering college programs; requiring that such counseling measure achievement of certain basic skills; revising requirements for hb0791-00 HB 791 admission to associate degree programs; amending s. 1007.271, F.S.; revising eligibility requirements for initial enrollment in college-level dual enrollment courses; revising requirements for home education students seeking dual enrollment in certain postsecondary institutions; amending s. 1008.30, F.S.; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt, by a specified date, rules establishing alternative methods for assessing specified skills of certain students; authorizing Florida College System institutions to use such alternative methods in lieu of the common placement test to assess a student's readiness to perform college-level work in computation and communication; deleting obsolete provisions; requiring Florida College System institutions to use placement test results or alternative methods to determine the extent to which certain students demonstrate specific skills to indicate readiness for their meta-major; requiring Florida College System institutions to counsel and place certain students in specified college courses; providing that students' developmental education must include only that content needed for success in their meta-major; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; making technical changes; amending s. 1008.44, F.S.; hb0791-00 HB 791 requiring the Commissioner of Education to identify certain certifications as those leading to occupations in specified industry sectors; requiring the commissioner to identify such certifications on a specified list; authorizing the commissioner to limit certain certifications for the purpose of specified calculations; amending s. 1009.25, F.S.; authorizing technical centers, Florida College System institutions, and state universities to enter into specified agreements; authorizing the State Board of Education to adopt specified rules and the Board of Governors to adopt specified regulations; amending s. 1011.62, F.S.; providing for calculation of full-time equivalent (FTE) membership for a specified industry certification; deleting a limit on additional FTE membership for certain students; providing for supplemental FTE membership for specified certifications; authorizing districts to use certain funds for specified expenses and programs; prohibiting certain funds from supplanting specified costs; requiring certain bonuses to be calculated in a specified manner; amending s. 1011.80, F.S.; providing for an appropriation to a school district or Florida College System institution from the General Appropriations Act for certain industry hb0791-00 HB 791 certifications; requiring a district school board or Florida College System institution board of trustees that receives certain funding to use the funding in a specified manner; amending s. 1011.81, F.S.; providing for an appropriation to each Florida College System institution from the General Appropriations Act for certain industry certifications; providing an effective date.

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Joseph Harding (R)*,  Daisy Morales (D), 

Other Sponsors (2)

Laid on Table; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/SB 366 (Ch. 2021-162), CS/CS/SB 1028 (Ch. 2021-35) (on 04/27/2021)

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