No. SB 1022
Filed under Healthcare.
Children’s Initiatives; Establishing the Bay County 32401 Children’s Initiative in Bay County and the Pompano RYZE Children’s Initiative in Broward County; providing for the projects to be managed by not-for-profit corporations; declaring that the initiatives are subject to state public records and meeting requirements and procurement of commodities and contractual services requirements; requiring designated children’s initiatives to assist in the creation of community-based service networks and programming that provides certain services for children and families residing in disadvantaged areas of this state, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDEstablishes the Bay County 32401 Children's Initiative and the Pompano RYZE Children's Initiative, both run by registered nonprofit corporations, to serve disadvantaged neighborhoods in Bay and Broward counties.
Both nonprofits must follow Florida's public records law, open meetings law, and government procurement rules for buying goods and services, even though neither is a government agency.
Each initiative covers an area big enough for schools, places of worship, recreation, and commerce, but small enough that its programs can reach every willing resident of the neighborhood.
Both new initiatives join five existing designated Florida Children's Initiatives statewide, all tasked with helping build community-based service networks for children and families in disadvantaged areas.
AIEstablishes a new state-recognized children's initiative project within Bay County, to be managed by a registered nonprofit corporation, aimed at serving a neighborhood-sized area including schools, worship, recreation, and commercial spaces.
AIEstablishes a parallel state-recognized children's initiative project within Broward County, structured identically to the Bay County initiative and managed by its own registered nonprofit corporation.
AIEven though each initiative is run by a private nonprofit corporation rather than a government agency, both are declared subject to Florida's public records law, open meetings law, and government procurement requirements for commodities and contracted services.
AIBoth projects join the existing designated Florida Children's Initiatives on the statewide implementation list, extending them the same duty to help build community-based service networks for children and families in disadvantaged areas.