Senate Bill 2148

    Florida Senate - 2000                                  SB 2148

    By Senator Holzendorf





    2-1210-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to dissolution of marriage;

  3         amending s. 28.101, F.S.; requiring the clerk

  4         of the court to collect the amount of and pay

  5         premiums on unemployment insurance on certain

  6         persons to cover child-support obligations;

  7         providing guidelines and establishing a fee;

  8         providing an effective date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  Paragraph (e) is added to subsection (1) of

13  section 28.101, Florida Statutes, to read:

14         28.101  Petitions and records of dissolution of

15  marriage; additional charges.--

16         (1)  When a party petitions for a dissolution of

17  marriage, in addition to the filing charges in s. 28.241, the

18  clerk shall collect and receive:

19         (e)  The reasonable premium for a policy of insurance,

20  which shall be forwarded to an authorized insurer or an

21  eligible surplus lines insurer selected pursuant to chapter

22  287, to cover the cost of a policy that will pay child-support

23  amounts owed to the child or the child's legal guardian, after

24  a reasonable waiting period, on behalf of the obligated person

25  if that person becomes involuntarily unemployed due to

26  strikes, lockouts, individual and mass layoffs, or loss of

27  income due to business failure or bankruptcy. Payments under

28  the policy must equal the monthly child-support payments

29  established in the divorce decree and must be payable for the

30  term of involuntary unemployment, not to exceed a total of 13

31  weeks, whether consecutive or not.

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    Florida Senate - 2000                                  SB 2148
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  1         1.  The clerk shall maintain a separate record of all

  2  insurance costs, and may collect an additional fee of $4 to

  3  cover the administrative cost of handling the insurance

  4  premium.

  5         2.  For the purposes of this paragraph, the office of

  6  the clerk of court is considered an agency as defined in s.

  7  287.012.

  8         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.

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12    Requires the clerk of the court to collect unemployment
      insurance premiums and pay for unemployment insurance to
13    cover child-support payments if the obligor becomes
      unemployed for specified reasons. Provides for a fee.
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