The Florida Senate

443.221  Reciprocal arrangements.--

(1)(a)  The division is authorized to enter into reciprocal arrangements with appropriate and duly authorized agencies of other states or of the Federal Government, or both, whereby services performed by an individual for a single employing unit for which services are customarily performed by such individuals in more than one state shall be deemed to be services performed entirely within any one of the states:

1.  In which any part of such individual's service is performed;

2.  In which such individual has her or his residence; or

3.  In which the employing unit maintains a place of business,

provided there is in effect as to such services an election, approved by the agency charged with the administration of such state's unemployment compensation law, pursuant to which all the services performed by such individual for such employing unit are deemed to be performed entirely within such state.

(b)  The division shall participate in any arrangements for the payment of compensation on the basis of combining an individual's wages and employment covered under this chapter with her or his wages and employment covered under the unemployment compensation laws of other states, which are approved by the United States Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the state unemployment compensation agencies, as reasonably calculated to assure the prompt and full payment of compensation in such situations and which include provisions for:

1.  Applying the base period of a single state law to a claim involving the combining of an individual's wages and employment covered under two or more state unemployment compensation laws, and

2.  Avoiding the duplicate use of wages and employment by reason of such combining.

(c)  Contributions due under this chapter with respect to wages for insured work shall for the purposes of ss. 443.131 and 443.141 be deemed to have been paid to the fund as of the date payment was made as contributions therefor under another state or federal unemployment compensation law, but no such arrangement shall be entered into unless it contains provisions for such reimbursement to the fund of such contributions and the actual earnings thereon as the division finds will be fair and reasonable as to all affected interests.

(2)  The division is authorized to make to other state or federal agencies and to receive from such other state or federal agencies reimbursements from or to the fund, in accordance with arrangements entered into pursuant to subsection (1).

(3)  The administration of this chapter and of other state and federal unemployment compensation and public employment service laws will be promoted by cooperation between this state and such other states and the appropriate federal agencies and therefore the division is authorized to enter into reciprocal arrangements with appropriate and duly authorized agencies of other states or the Federal Government or both in exchanging services, determining and enforcing payment obligations, and making available facilities and information. The Division of Unemployment Compensation and the Agency for Workforce Innovation are each, therefore, authorized to make such investigations, secure and transmit such information, make available such services and facilities, and exercise such of the other powers provided herein with respect to the administration of this chapter as each deems necessary or appropriate to facilitate the administration of any such unemployment compensation or public employment service law and, in like manner, to accept and utilize information, services, and facilities made available to this state by the agency charged with the administration of any such other unemployment compensation or public employment service law.

(4)  To the extent permissible under the laws and Constitution of the United States, the division is authorized to enter into or cooperate in arrangements whereby facilities and services provided under this chapter and facilities and services provided under the unemployment compensation law of any foreign government may be utilized for the taking of claims and the payment of benefits under the employment security law of the state or under a similar law of such government.

History.--s. 19, ch. 18402, 1937; s. 12, ch. 19637, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 4151(505); s. 17, ch. 20685, 1941; s. 6, ch. 24084, 1947; s. 11, ch. 25035, 1949; s. 1, ch. 29768, 1955; ss. 17, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 13, ch. 71-225; s. 119, ch. 73-333; ss. 6, 8, 9, ch. 80-95; s. 17, ch. 83-174; s. 6, ch. 95-345; s. 8, ch. 96-378; s. 1068, ch. 97-103; s. 109, ch. 2000-165.

Note.--Former s. 443.18.