Title: Vocational Rehabilitation

Summary: Requires Workforce Florida, Inc., to include measurable performance goals for employment of persons who have a disability in a state strategic plan.

Full Text:
An act relating to vocational rehabilitation;amending s. 445.003, F.S.; requiring Workforce Florida, Inc., to include certain measurable performance goals relating to employment of persons who have a disability in its state strategic plan; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Subsection (6) is added to section 445.003, Florida Statutes, to read: 445.003 Implementation of the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998.-(6) STRATEGIC PLAN PERFORMANCE GOALS FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE A DISABILITY.-As part of the state's implementation of the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, Pub. L. No. 113-128, the president of Workforce Florida, Inc., shall include in the state strategic plan required under s. 445.006 specific, measureable performance goals for the employment of persons who have a disability. The goals shall be designed to eleva te the state's vocational rehabilitation program to one of the top 22 in the nation and must address the number and percentage of: (a) Individuals receiving services.(b) Individuals receiving postsecondary workforce education. CS/HB 1153 2015 (c) Cases closed due to the employment of the eligible individual. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.