Committee Amendment — Amendment to PCS for HB 879 (Careers & Workforce Subcommittee, 2025)

Summary

A committee amendment (with title amendment) to PCS for HB 879 (2025), offered by Representative Rizo for the Careers & Workforce Subcommittee. It inserts subsection (6) into section 39.4085, Florida Statutes, requiring the department to coordinate with youth organizations focused on empowering youth with lived experience and to meet at least quarterly with youth organizations. It imposes the same coordination and quarterly meetings on each community-based care lead agency, with a formal agenda and minutes made available on a website. By August 1 and February 1 of each year, the department and each lead agency would publish a report on how suggestions from stakeholders have been implemented.

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Document type: 2025 3291 Careers Workforce Subcommittee Proposed Committee Bill Amendments Fn Pcs For Hb
Case: 2025 3291 Careers Workforce Subcommittee Proposed Committee Bill Amendments Fn Pcs For Hb 879 A1

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“Committee Amendment — Amendment to PCS for HB 879 (Careers & Workforce Subcommittee, 2025).” Original at www.flhouse.gov. Archived at Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/source-documents/2025-3291-careers-workforce-subcommittee-proposed-committee-bill-amendments-fn-pcs-for-hb-879-a1/, SHA-256 66a7a27326e344acc897c07550b61ece7984488fd1e412bbce1b697ea3280c95.

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                                          COMMITTEE/SUBCOMMITTEE AMENDMENT
                                             Bill No. PCS for HB 879    (2025)
       Amendment No.




            COMMITTEE/SUBCOMMITTEE ACTION
       ADOPTED                       (Y/N)
       ADOPTED AS AMENDED            (Y/N)
       ADOPTED W/O OBJECTION         (Y/N)
       FAILED TO ADOPT               (Y/N)
       WITHDRAWN                     (Y/N)
       OTHER


1      Committee/Subcommittee hearing bill:       Careers & Workforce
2      Subcommittee
3      Representative Rizo offered the following:
4
5           Amendment (with title amendment)
6           Between lines 29 and 30, insert:
7           Section 1.    Subsection (6) is added to section 39.4085,
8      Florida Statutes, to read:
9           39.4085    Goals for dependent children; responsibilities;
10     education; Office of the Children's Ombudsman.—
11          (6)(a)    The department shall coordinate with youth
12     organizations that are focused on empowering youth with lived
13     experience. The department shall meet at least quarterly with
14     youth organizations to solicit input on ways to address
15     challenges and opportunities for youth in the child welfare
16     system. Each meeting must have a formal agenda that, along with
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17     the meeting minutes, must be made available on the department's
18     website.
19          (b)   Each community-based care lead agency shall coordinate
20     with youth organizations that are focused on empowering youth
21     with lived experience. Each community-based care lead agency
22     shall meet at least quarterly with youth organizations to
23     solicit input on ways to address challenges and opportunities
24     for youth in the child welfare system. Each meeting must have a
25     formal agenda that, along with the meeting minutes, must be made
26     available on the community-based care lead agency's website.
27          (c)   By August 1 and February 1 of each year, the
28     department and each community-based care lead agency shall
29     publish and make accessible on its website a report that
30     outlines how the department and each community-based care lead
31     agency has implemented the suggestions offered from stakeholders
32     at the quarterly meetings under paragraphs (a) and (b).
33
34
35           -----------------------------------------------------
36                        T I T L E   A M E N D M E N T
37          Remove line 4 and insert:
38          39.4085, F.S.; requiring the Department of Children
39          and Families and community-based care lead agencies to
40          coordinate and host quarterly meetings with certain
41          organizations for a specified purpose; requiring each
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42          meeting's formal agenda and minutes to be posted on
43          the department's and each community-based care lead
44          agency's website; requiring the department and each
45          community-based care lead agency to publish and make
46          assessible a certain report on its website by
47          specified dates; amending s. 409.1452, F.S.; requiring
48          each Florida College System




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