Bill Text: FL H0301 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Seaport Employment Training Grant Program
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2012-03-09 - Died in Business and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee [H0301 Detail]
Download: Florida-2012-H0301-Introduced.html
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2 | An act relating to the Seaport Employment Training |
3 | Grant Program; reviving, reenacting, and amending s. |
4 | 288.386, F.S.; requiring the Department of Economic |
5 | Opportunity under certain circumstances to establish |
6 | and administer the Florida-Caribbean Basin Trade |
7 | Initiative within the program; providing the purpose |
8 | of, and the department's responsibilities for, the |
9 | initiative; providing for coordination and alliances |
10 | with certain organizations and funding programs; |
11 | requiring the department to develop performance |
12 | measures for the initiative; providing an effective |
13 | date. |
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15 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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17 | Section 1. Notwithstanding the repeal of section 288.386, |
18 | Florida Statutes, by section 52 of chapter 2011-213, Laws of |
19 | Florida, section 288.386, Florida Statutes, is revived, |
20 | reenacted, and amended to read: |
21 | 288.386 Florida-Caribbean Basin Trade Initiative.- |
22 | (1) Contingent upon a specific appropriation, the |
23 | department shall, within the Seaport Employment Training Grant |
24 | Program, |
25 | Caribbean Basin Trade Initiative for the purpose of assisting |
26 | small and medium-sized businesses to become involved in |
27 | international activities and helping them to identify markets |
28 | with product demand, identify strategic alliances in those |
29 | markets, and obtain the financing to effectuate trade |
30 | opportunities in the Caribbean Basin. The initiative must focus |
31 | assistance to businesses located in urban communities. The |
32 | initiative shall offer export readiness, assistance and referral |
33 | services, internships, seminars, workshops, conferences, and e- |
34 | commerce plus mentoring and matchmaking services, but shall |
35 | coordinate with and not duplicate those services provided by |
36 | Enterprise Florida, Inc. |
37 | (2) To enhance initiative effectiveness and leverage |
38 | resources, the department |
39 | activities with Enterprise Florida, Inc., United States Export |
40 | Assistance Centers, the Florida Export Finance Corporation, |
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42 | and any other organizations that the department |
43 | appropriate. The coordination may encompass export assistance |
44 | and referral services, export financing, job-training programs, |
45 | educational programs, market research and development, market |
46 | promotion, trade missions, e-commerce, and mentoring and |
47 | matchmaking services relative to the expansion of trade between |
48 | this state |
49 | also form alliances with multilateral, international, and |
50 | domestic funding programs from this state |
51 | States, and the Caribbean Basin to coordinate systems and |
52 | programs for fundamental assistance in facilitating trade and |
53 | investment. |
54 | (3) |
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57 | department |
58 | shall develop performance measures |
59 | the initiative, which |
60 | are not limited to, the number of businesses assisted, |
61 | number of urban businesses assisted, |
62 | of exports to the Caribbean which is attributable to the |
63 | initiative. |
64 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012. |
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