Senate Bill sb0470c2

    Florida Senate - 2003                     CS for CS for SB 470

    By the Committees on Appropriations; Commerce, Economic
    Opportunities, and Consumer Services; and Senators Wasserman
    Schultz and Diaz de la Portilla



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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to economic recovery; creating

  3         s. 443.0915, F.S.; providing a definition and

  4         an application of an alternative base period;

  5         providing requirements and limitations;

  6         providing an effective date.

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

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10         Section 1.  Section 443.0915, Florida Statutes, is

11  created to read:

12         443.0915  Alternative base period; eligibility for

13  benefits.--

14         (1)  For a benefit year commencing on or after October

15  1, 2003, if an individual is not monetarily eligible in his or

16  her base period to qualify for benefits, the Agency for

17  Workforce Innovation must designate his or her base period to

18  be the alternative base period. As used in this section, the

19  term "alternative base period" means the last four completed

20  calendar quarters immediately before the first day of an

21  individual's benefit year. Wages used in a base period to

22  establish a monetarily eligible benefit year may not be

23  applied to establish monetary eligibility in any subsequent

24  benefit year. If information regarding wages for the calendar

25  quarter or quarters immediately before the benefit year has

26  not been input into the Agency for Workforce Innovation's

27  database, the agency shall request the wage information from

28  the employer. An employer must provide the requested wage

29  information within 10 days after receiving a request from the

30  Agency for Workforce Innovation. An employer who fails to

31  provide the requested wage information within the required

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 1  time is subject to the penalty for delinquent reports provided

 2  in s. 443.141(1)(b).

 3         (2)  For monetary determinations based on the

 4  alternative base period under subsection (1), if the Agency

 5  for Workforce Innovation is unable to access the wage

 6  information through its database, the agency may base the

 7  determination of eligibility for benefits on an affidavit

 8  submitted by the individual with respect to wages for those

 9  calendar quarters. The individual must furnish payroll

10  information, if available, in support of the affidavit. A

11  determination of benefits based upon an alternative base

12  period shall be adjusted when the quarterly report of wage

13  information from the employer is received, if that information

14  causes a change in the determination.

15         (3)  Implementation of this section is contingent on a

16  specific appropriation in the annual General Appropriations

17  Act to the Agency for Workforce Innovation for operating costs

18  necessary to implement the alternative base period provision.

19         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

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21          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
22                      Senate Bill CS/SB 470

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24  The committee substitute removes provisions relating to
    economic-recovery training and a temporary increase in weekly
25  benefits.  The alternative base period provision is retained
    with implementation contingent on a specific appropriation in
26  the annual General Appropriations Act to the Agency for
    Workforce Innovation for necessary operating costs.
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