Bill Text: FL S1534 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Job Opportunities for Youth
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2012-03-09 - Died in Education Pre-K - 12 [S1534 Detail]
Download: Florida-2012-S1534-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2012 SB 1534
By Senator Siplin
19-00813-12 20121534__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to job opportunities for youth;
3 providing legislative intent to support statewide
4 vocational training and placement for at-risk youth
5 through the Jobs for Florida’s Graduates (JFG)
6 program; requiring that JFG submit to the Florida
7 Endowment Foundation for Florida’s Graduates a
8 proposal for funding a statewide summer program for
9 youth employment; providing criteria concerning the
10 proposal; requiring a report to the Legislature;
11 requiring that the Florida Endowment Foundation for
12 Florida’s Graduates be the fiscal agent for the Jobs
13 for Florida’s Graduates program; amending s. 561.121,
14 F.S.; revising the percentage of monthly collections
15 of the excise taxes on alcoholic beverages to be
16 deposited into the Alcoholic Beverage and Tobacco
17 Trust Fund; requiring that a certain percentage of net
18 collections be deposited into the Grants and Donations
19 Trust Fund within the Florida Endowment Foundation for
20 Florida’s Graduates to operate the statewide summer
21 program for youth employment; amending s. 563.05,
22 F.S.; revising the excise tax amount payable by
23 manufacturers, distributors, and vendors of malt
24 beverages; creating s. 563.09, F.S.; providing a tax
25 credit against certain taxes on alcoholic beverages
26 for a business that employs youth during the summer
27 under the internship program or provides an education
28 scholarship to a student who completes a JFG
29 internship; providing an effective date.
30
31 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
32
33 Section 1. Jobs for Florida’s Graduates; legislative
34 intent; statewide program; fiscal oversight.—
35 (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide support
36 and funding for programs conducted by Jobs for Florida’s
37 Graduates (JFG). JFG provides paid internships and educational
38 and developmental skills to youth between 16 and 18 years of age
39 who have significant family troubles, have significant school
40 troubles, or have experienced drug or alcohol use, or both, or
41 who exhibit predelinquent behavior.
42 (2) In order to receive funding, JFG shall submit to the
43 Florida Endowment Foundation for Florida’s Graduates, by
44 September 1, 2012, a proposal for funding a statewide summer
45 program for youth employment. The program shall include a summer
46 internship of at least 8 weeks, student-selection criteria,
47 required parental involvement, and followup during the school
48 year. By January 1, 2013, and each January 1 thereafter, JFG
49 shall provide to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of
50 the House of Representatives a report that includes, but need
51 not be limited to, an itemized list of program costs, the number
52 and types of businesses or partnerships that provide summer
53 internships, and the following statistics concerning the youth
54 served by the program: high school retention and graduation
55 rates, postsecondary education or vocational training, job
56 placement, increase in basic skills, mastery of work and life
57 skills, and increase or decrease in juvenile crime.
58 (3) The Florida Endowment Foundation for Florida’s
59 Graduates shall be the fiscal agent for the Jobs for Florida’s
60 Graduates summer program for youth employment.
61 Section 2. Subsection (1) of section 561.121, Florida
62 Statutes, is amended to read:
63 561.121 Deposit of revenue.—
64 (1) All state funds collected pursuant to ss. 563.05,
65 564.06, and 565.12 shall be paid into the State Treasury and
66 disbursed in the following manner:
67 (a) 1. One and eight-hundred-fifty-thousandths Two percent
68 of monthly collections of the excise taxes on alcoholic
69 beverages established in ss. 563.05, 564.06, and 565.12 shall be
70 deposited into the Alcoholic Beverage and Tobacco Trust Fund to
71 meet the division’s appropriation for the state fiscal year.
72 2. Six and nine-hundred-fifty-thousandths percent of the
73 net collections shall be deposited into the Grants and Donations
74 Trust Fund within the Florida Endowment Foundation for Florida’s
75 Graduates to operate the statewide summer program for youth
76 employment.
77 (b) The remainder of the funds collected pursuant to ss.
78 563.05, 564.06, and 565.12 shall be credited to the General
79 Revenue Fund.
80 Section 3. Section 563.05, Florida Statutes, is amended to
81 read:
82 563.05 Excise taxes on malt beverages.—As to malt beverages
83 containing 0.5 percent or more of alcohol by volume, there shall
84 be paid by all manufacturers, distributors, and vendors, as
85 herein defined, a tax of 56 48 cents per gallon upon all such
86 beverages in bulk or in kegs or barrels; and, when such
87 beverages are sold in containers of less than 1 gallon, the tax
88 will be 7 6 cents on each pint or fraction thereof in the
89 container. However, the excise taxes required to be paid by this
90 section upon malt beverages are not required to be paid upon
91 such beverages when they are sold to post exchanges, ship
92 service stores, and base exchanges located in military, naval,
93 or air force reservations within this state.
94 Section 4. Section 563.09, Florida Statutes, is created to
95 read:
96 563.09 Tax credit for youth summer employment.—The
97 following tax credits are allowed against the tax imposed under
98 this chapter:
99 (1) The sum of $2,400 annually for each paid, qualified
100 internship provided by the taxpayer under the statewide Jobs for
101 Florida’s Graduates (JFG) summer program for youth employment.
102 An internship tax credit of $200 shall be taken against monthly
103 excise taxes as remitted and reported pursuant to s. 561.50. As
104 used in this subsection, the term “qualified internship” means
105 employment as an intern in the public, private, or not-for
106 profit sector. The internship should align with this state’s
107 targeted industries or with high-skill or high-wage jobs as well
108 as the intern’s individual career goals and may not include
109 contact with alcoholic beverages.
110 (2) Up to $5,000 annually for each academic or vocational
111 postsecondary education scholarship provided by the taxpayer to
112 a student who successfully completes a JFG internship. The tax
113 credit shall be taken in 12 equal installments against monthly
114 excise taxes as remitted and reported pursuant to s. 561.50.
115 Section 5. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.
