Bill Text: FL S1640 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Online Access to Reemployment Assistance Program
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2021-04-30 - Died in Commerce and Tourism, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 1463 (Ch. 2021-25) [S1640 Detail]
Download: Florida-2021-S1640-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2021 SB 1640 By Senator Cruz 18-01504-21 20211640__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to online access to reemployment 3 assistance program; amending s. 443.1113, F.S.; 4 requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to 5 develop a mobile-optimized website to make the 6 reemployment assistance program accessible to the 7 public through mobile devices; providing requirements 8 for the mobile-optimized website; providing a name for 9 the mobile-optimized website implementation project; 10 providing a timeline for the full operational status 11 of the mobile-optimized website deployment; providing 12 that the implementation of the mobile-optimized 13 website is contingent upon legislative appropriation; 14 providing governance structure for the project; 15 providing an effective date. 16 17 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 18 19 Section 1. Present subsection (5) of section 443.1113, 20 Florida Statutes, is amended, a new subsection (5) is added to 21 that section, and subsection (1) of that section is republished, 22 to read: 23 443.1113 Reemployment Assistance Claims and Benefits 24 Information System.— 25 (1) To the extent that funds are appropriated for each 26 phase of the Reemployment Assistance Claims and Benefits 27 Information System by the Legislature, the Department of 28 Economic Opportunity shall replace and enhance the functionality 29 provided in the following systems with an integrated Internet 30 based system that is known as the “Reemployment Assistance 31 Claims and Benefits Information System”: 32 (a) Claims and benefit mainframe system. 33 (b) Florida unemployment Internet direct. 34 (c) Florida continued claim Internet directory. 35 (d) Call center interactive voice response system. 36 (e) Benefit overpayment screening system. 37 (f) Internet and Intranet appeals system. 38 (5) The Department of Economic Opportunity shall develop a 39 mobile-optimized website to make the reemployment assistance 40 program accessible to the public through mobile devices. 41 (a) The mobile-optimized website must allow a claimant to: 42 1. File a reemployment assistance claim. 43 2. View all of the claim information in one convenient 44 place, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 45 3. Update information anytime, including a change of 46 address or telephone number. 47 4. Choose the manner to receive notification from the 48 department, either electronically or by United States mail. 49 5. Establish or cancel payment by debit card or direct 50 deposit. 51 6. Create or change a personal identification number (PIN). 52 7. Get claim and payment information, request benefits, and 53 print tax forms. 54 8. Submit work search contacts. 55 (b) The project to implement the mobile-optimized website 56 may be cited as the “Modernization Project.” The mobile 57 optimized website shall be deployed to full operational status 58 no later than the end of fiscal year 2022-2023. 59 (c) This subsection is contingent upon appropriation by the 60 Legislature. 61 (6)(5)The Department of Economic Opportunity shall 62 implement the following project governance structure untilsuch63time asthe Reemployment Assistance Claims and Benefits 64 Information System project and, upon appropriation by the 65 Legislature, the Modernization Project as described in 66 subsection (5) areiscompleted, suspended, or terminated: 67 (a) Theprojectsponsor for the projectsReemployment68Assistance Claims and Benefits Information System projectis the 69 department. 70 (b) The projectsprojectshall be governed by an executive 71 steering committee composed of the following voting members or 72 their designees: 73 1. The executive director of the department. 74 2. The executive director of the Department of Revenue. 75 3. The director of the Division of Workforce Services 76 within the department. 77 4. The program director of the General Tax Administration 78 Program Office within the Department of Revenue. 79 5. The chief information officer of the department. 80 (c) The executive steering committee has the overall 81 responsibility for ensuring that the projects meet theirproject82meets itsprimary objectives, and the committee is specifically 83 responsible for: 84 1. Providing management direction and support to the 85 project management team. 86 2. Assessing the projects’ alignmentsproject’s alignment87 with the strategic goals of the department for administering the 88 reemployment assistance program. 89 3. Reviewing and approving or disapproving any changes to 90 the projects’ scopes, schedulesproject’s scope, schedule, and 91 costs. 92 4. Reviewing, approving or disapproving, and determining 93 whether to proceed with any major project deliverables. 94 5. Recommending suspension or termination of the projects 95projectto the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the 96 Speaker of the House of Representatives if it determines that 97 the primary objectives cannot be achieved. 98 (d) The project management team shall work under the 99 direction of the executive steering committee and shall be 100 minimally composedcomprisedof senior managers and stakeholders 101 from the department and the Department of Revenue. The project 102 management team is responsible for: 103 1. Providing daily planning, management, and oversight of 104 the projectsproject. 105 2. Submittinganoperational work plansplanand providing 106 quarterly updates to the plansthat planto the executive 107 steering committee. The plansplanmust specify the projects’ 108projectmilestones, deliverables, and expenditures. 109 3. Submitting written monthly project status reports to the 110 executive steering committee which include: 111 a. The planned versus actual projects’projectcosts; 112 b. An assessment of the status of major milestones and 113 deliverables; 114 c. Identification of any issues requiring resolution, the 115 proposed resolution for these issues, and information regarding 116 the status of the resolution; 117 d. Identification of risks that must be managed; and 118 e. Identification of and recommendations regarding 119 necessary changes in the projects’ scopes, schedulesproject’s120scope, schedule, or costs. All recommendations must be reviewed 121 by the projects’projectstakeholders before submission to the 122 executive steering committee in order to ensure that the 123 recommendations meet required acceptance criteria. 124 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.