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Senate
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2002
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980074
Senator Wasserman Schultz moved the following substitute for
amendment (980074):
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11 Senator Wasserman Schultz moved the following substitute for
12 amendment (980074):
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18 Section 31. In order to implement specific
19 appropriations 2195-2202 of the 2002-2003 General
20 Appropriations Act, subsection (3) and paragraph (a) of
21 subsection (5) of section 443.111, Florida Statutes, are
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23 443.111 Payment of benefits.--
24 (3) WEEKLY BENEFIT AMOUNT.--
25 (a) An individual's "weekly benefit amount" is shall
26 be an amount equal to one twenty-sixth of the total wages for
27 insured work paid during that quarter of the base period in
28 which such total wages paid were the highest, but not less
29 than $32 or more than $275. This amount may also be cited as
30 the "base benefit amount."
31 (b) For fiscal year 2002-2003 only, claims with
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1 benefit years beginning October 1, 2002, through June 30,
2 2004, the weekly benefit amount is increased by an amount
3 equal to $25 or 15 January 1, 2000, through December 31, 2000,
4 an additional 5 percent of the base weekly benefit amount
5 shall be added for each compensable week the first 8
6 compensable weeks of benefits paid, not to exceed $316 $288.
7 This paragraph expires July 1, 2003.
8 (c) The Such weekly benefit amount, if not a multiple
9 of $1, is shall be rounded downward to the nearest full dollar
10 amount. The maximum weekly benefit amount in effect at the
11 time the claimant establishes an individual weekly benefit
12 amount is shall be the maximum benefit amount applicable
13 throughout the claimant's benefit year.
14 (5) DURATION OF BENEFITS.--
15 (a)1. Any otherwise eligible individual shall be
16 entitled during any benefit year to a total amount of benefits
17 equal to 25 percent of the total wages in the base period, not
18 to exceed $7,150. This amount may be cited as the "base amount
19 of benefits."
20 2. For fiscal year 2002-2003 only, claims with benefit
21 years beginning October 1, 2002, through June 30, 2004, the
22 total amount of benefits is increased by January 1, 2000,
23 through December 31, 2000, an additional amount equal to $25
24 or 15 5 percent of the base weekly benefit amount, whichever
25 is greater, multiplied by the individual's number of benefit
26 weeks 8 shall be added to the calculated total amount of
27 benefits, the sum of which may not to exceed $8,216 $7,254.
28 For purposes of this subparagraph, an individual's number of
29 benefit weeks is calculated by dividing the individual's base
30 amount of benefits in subparagraph 1. by the individual's base
31 benefit amount in paragraph (3)(a). The number of benefit
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1 weeks shall be computed to the third decimal place and rounded
2 to the second decimal place. The However, such total amount of
3 benefits, if not a multiple of $1, is shall be rounded
4 downward to the nearest full dollar amount. These Such
5 benefits are shall be payable at a weekly rate no greater than
6 the weekly benefit amount. This subparagraph expires July 1,
7 2003.
8 4.2. For the purposes of this subsection, wages shall
9 be counted as "wages for insured work" for benefit purposes
10 with respect to any benefit year only if such benefit year
11 begins subsequent to the date on which the employing unit by
12 whom such wages were paid has satisfied the conditions of this
13 chapter with respect to becoming an employer.
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19 And the title is amended as follows:
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23 amending s. 443.111, F.S.; providing, for a
24 limited time period, an increase in weekly
25 unemployment compensation benefit amounts and
26 the total amount of benefits;
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