Marketing Florida

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Military Family Support Working Group

• Marketing Floridas Military Events Services
  Resources
• DBPR Licensing Certification Reciprocity
• SB 1330 HB 713
• High School class credit portability issues
• DOD Interstate Compact -
• Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) input
• SLO (School Liaison Officer) input-- Universal
  shot record compatibility issues between the
  services and civilian electronic records system

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Military Family Support Working Group

• DOD 10 Key Issues Update
• 2 new issues
• Ensure Deployment Separation Does Not Determine
  Child Custody Decisions
• Comport State Laws with DOD Rules on Disposition
• ADC FOAC Brief
• 3 issues submitted to FOAC committee for
  consideration
• Federal TSP (Thrift Savings Plan) for active duty
  military spouses
• (WOTC) Work Opportunity Tax Credit for hiring
  military spouses (target group)
• Have military spouses added as a Protected
  Category under Title VII
• Recommending taskforce/working group for military
  family
• Government Affairs Military Family Caucus
• Launched 4 Nov-- 60 members from the House of
  Rep. 3 from Florida
• 2 top legislative issues topping the agenda are
  programs for special needs children and helping
  military spouses find jobs

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Military Family Support Working Group

• Military to Medicine Program
• Join Network
• Career Readiness
• Talent Exchange
• Restructuring the Working Group
• Florida Council on Military Bases and Family
  Support
• 4 subgroups to possibly provide adhoc groups or
  special working groups
• To be a resource mechanism for the council
• FISFAC Florida Inter-Service Family Assistance
  Committee Partnership