The Florida Senate

443.181  State Employment Service.--

(1)  CREATION.--A state public employment service is established in the Agency for Workforce Innovation, under policy direction from Workforce Florida, Inc. The agency shall establish and maintain free public employment offices in such number and in such places as may be necessary for the proper administration of this chapter and for the purposes of performing such duties as are within the purview of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the states in the promotion of such system and for other purposes," approved June 6, 1933 (48 Stat. 113; 29 U.S.C. s. 49(c)), as amended. Notwithstanding any provisions in this section to the contrary, the one-stop delivery system shall be the primary method for delivering services under this section, consistent with Pub. L. No. 105-220 and chapter 445. It shall be the duty of the agency to cooperate with any official or agency of the United States having power or duties under the provisions of the Act of Congress, as amended, and to do and perform all things necessary to secure to this state the benefits of said Act of Congress, as amended, in the promotion and maintenance of a system of public employment offices. The provisions of the said Act of Congress, as amended, are hereby accepted by this state, in conformity with s. 4 of that act, and this state will observe and comply with the requirements thereof. The Agency for Workforce Innovation is designated and constituted the agency of this state for the purpose of that act. The agency is authorized and directed to appoint sufficient employees to carry out the purposes of this section. The agency may cooperate with or enter into agreements with the Railroad Retirement Board with respect to the establishment, maintenance, and use of free employment service facilities.

(2)  FINANCING.--All moneys received by this state under the said Act of Congress, as amended, shall be paid into the Employment Security Administration Trust Fund, and such moneys are hereby made available to the agency to be expended as provided by this chapter and by said Act of Congress. For the purpose of establishing and maintaining free public employment offices, the agency is authorized to enter into agreements with the Railroad Retirement Board or any other agency of the United States charged with the administration of an unemployment compensation law, with any political subdivision of this state, or with any private, nonprofit organization, and as a part of any such agreement the agency may accept moneys, services, or quarters as a contribution to the Employment Security Administration Trust Fund.

(3)  REFERENCES.--References to "the agency" in this section mean the Agency for Workforce Innovation.

History.--s. 13, ch. 18402, 1937; s. 8, ch. 19637, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 4151(500); s. 12, ch. 20685, 1941; s. 2, ch. 61-119; ss. 17, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 73-283; s. 1, ch. 77-174; s. 26, ch. 79-7; ss. 6, 8, 9, ch. 80-95; s. 15, ch. 83-174; s. 4, ch. 95-345; s. 107, ch. 2000-165.

Note.--Former s. 443.13.