Senate Bill sb1794c3

    Florida Senate - 2003             CS for CS for CS for SB 1794

    By the Committees on Finance and Taxation; Commerce, Economic
    Opportunities, and Consumer Services; Military and Veterans'
    Affairs, Base Protection, and Spaceports; and Senator Hill



    314-2525-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to military service family

  3         relief; providing a short title; authorizing

  4         the Agency for Workforce Innovation to provide

  5         grants to private-sector employers for wages

  6         paid to Florida residents of the United States

  7         Armed Forces Reserves or the Florida National

  8         Guard while on federal active duty; providing

  9         for calculation of grant amounts; identifying

10         the period for which grants can be provided;

11         requiring the agency to develop a plan to

12         implement the grant process; providing that the

13         total amount of agency grants shall not exceed

14         aggregate amount in the 2003-2004 General

15         Appropriations Act; providing an effective

16         date.

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

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20         Section 1.  This act may be cited as the "First

21  Sergeant Carey Baker Military Relief Act."

22         Section 2.  The Agency for Workforce Innovation shall

23  provide matching grants to private-sector employers in this

24  state that continue to provide wages to employees who are

25  serving in the United States Armed Forces Reserves or the

26  Florida National Guard while such employees are on federal

27  active duty, provided that the employees are residents of the

28  state during the period of such federal active duty.

29         Section 3.  Grants shall be provided for monthly wages

30  paid to employees for the actual period of federal active

31  duty, but in no case shall grants be provided for any federal

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    Florida Senate - 2003             CS for CS for CS for SB 1794
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 1  active duty prior to January 1, 2003, or subsequent to June

 2  30, 2004.  The monthly grant per employee may not exceed the

 3  lesser of $500 or one-half of the monthly wages paid by the

 4  employer to the employee at the level paid prior to the

 5  employee being called to federal active duty, minus the amount

 6  of active duty base pay and benefit package.

 7         Section 4.  The agency shall develop a plan subject to

 8  the notice, review, and objection procedures of section

 9  216.177, Florida Statutes, to implement the application and

10  payment processes for such matching grants.

11         Section 5.  The agency is authorized to provide

12  matching grants in an aggregate amount not to exceed specific

13  appropriations included in the 2003-2004 fiscal year General

14  Appropriations Act for this purpose.

15         Section 6.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

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17          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
18                          CS/CS/SB 1794

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20  This committee substitute changes the bill from a tax credit
    program to a matching grants program for private sector
21  employers that continue to provide wages to employees who are
    serving in the United States Armed Forces Reserves or the
22  Florida National Guard while such employees are on federal
    active duty between January 1, 2003 and June 30, 2004.  The
23  amount of grants provided in aggregate is may not exceed
    specific appropriations in the General Appropriations Act for
24  fiscal year 2003-2004.

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