Bill Text: FL S0720 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Children's Initiatives
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-08 - Laid on Table, refer to HB 449 909 [S0720 Detail]
Download: Florida-2018-S0720-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2018 SB 720 By Senator Young 18-00403-18 2018720__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to children’s initiatives; amending s. 3 409.147, F.S.; creating the Tampa Sulphur Springs 4 Neighborhood of Promise Success Zone within the City 5 of Tampa in Hillsborough County and the Overtown 6 Children and Youth Coalition within the City of Miami 7 in Miami-Dade County; providing for the projects to be 8 managed by not-for-profit corporations that are not 9 subject to control, supervision, or direction by any 10 department of the state; providing legislative intent; 11 requiring the corporations to be subject to public 12 records and public meeting requirements and to 13 requirements for the procurement of commodities and 14 contractual services; providing that the success zone 15 and the coalition are designed to encompass areas 16 large enough to include certain components but small 17 enough to allow programs and services to reach 18 participants; providing implementation of the 19 coalition and the success zone; providing an effective 20 date. 21 22 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 23 24 Section 1. Present subsection (11) of section 409.147, 25 Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (13) and 26 amended, and a new subsection (11) and subsection (12) are added 27 to that section, to read: 28 409.147 Children’s initiatives.— 29 (11) CREATION OF THE TAMPA SULPHUR SPRINGS NEIGHBORHOOD OF 30 PROMISE (SSNOP) SUCCESS ZONE.— 31 (a) There is created within the City of Tampa in 32 Hillsborough County a 10-year project that shall be managed by 33 an entity organized as a not-for-profit corporation that is 34 registered, incorporated, organized, and operated in compliance 35 with chapter 617. The Tampa SSNOP Success Zone is not subject to 36 control, supervision, or direction by any department of the 37 state in any manner. The Legislature determines, however, that 38 public policy dictates that the corporation operate in the most 39 open and accessible manner consistent with its public purpose. 40 Therefore, the Legislature declares that the corporation is 41 subject to chapter 119, relating to public records, chapter 286, 42 relating to public meetings and records, and chapter 287, 43 relating to procurement of commodities or contractual services. 44 (b) This initiative is designed to encompass an area that 45 is large enough to include all of the necessary components of 46 community life, including, but not limited to, schools, places 47 of worship, recreational facilities, commercial areas, and 48 common space, yet small enough to allow programs and services to 49 reach every member of the neighborhood who is willing to 50 participate in the project. 51 (12) CREATION OF THE OVERTOWN CHILDREN AND YOUTH 52 COALITION.— 53 (a) There is created within the City of Miami in Miami-Dade 54 County a 10-year project that shall be managed by an entity 55 organized as a not-for-profit corporation that is registered, 56 incorporated, organized, and operated in compliance with chapter 57 617. The Overtown Children and Youth Coalition is not subject to 58 control, supervision, or direction by any department of the 59 state in any manner. The Legislature determines, however, that 60 public policy dictates that the corporation operate in the most 61 open and accessible manner consistent with its public purpose. 62 Therefore, the Legislature declares that the corporation is 63 subject to chapter 119, relating to public records, chapter 286, 64 relating to public meetings and records, and chapter 287, 65 relating to procurement of commodities or contractual services. 66 (b) This initiative is designed to encompass an area that 67 is large enough to include all of the necessary components of 68 community life, including, but not limited to, schools, places 69 of worship, recreational facilities, commercial areas, and 70 common space, yet small enough to allow programs and services to 71 reach every member of the neighborhood who is willing to 72 participate in the project. 73 (13)(11)IMPLEMENTATION.— 74 (a) The Miami Children’s Initiative, Inc., the New Town 75 Success Zone,andthe Parramore Kidz Zone, the Tampa SSNOP 76 Success Zone, and the Overtown Children and Youth Coalition have 77 been designated as Florida Children’s Initiatives consistent 78 with the legislative intent and purpose of s. 16, chapter 2009 79 43, Laws of Florida, and as such shall each assist the 80 disadvantaged areas of the state in creating a community-based 81 service network and programming that develops, coordinates, and 82 provides quality education, accessible health care, youth 83 development programs, opportunities for employment, and safe and 84 affordable housing for children and families living within their 85 boundaries. 86 (b) In order to implement this section for the Miami 87 Children’s Initiative, Inc., the Department of Children and 88 Families shall contract with a not-for-profit corporation, to 89 work in collaboration with the governing body to adopt the 90 resolution described in subsection (4), to establish the 91 planning team as provided in subsection (5), and to develop and 92 adopt the strategic community plan as provided in subsection 93 (6). The not-for-profit corporation is also responsible for the 94 development of a business plan and for the evaluation, fiscal 95 management, and oversight of the Miami Children’s Initiative, 96 Inc. 97 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018.