SENATE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 2270
    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 803798
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11  Senator Atwater moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
14         On page 24, between lines 27 and 28,
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17         Section 5.  Subsection (7) of section 440.16, Florida
18  Statutes, is amended to read:
19         440.16  Compensation for death.--
20         (7)  Compensation under this chapter to aliens not
21  residents (or about to become nonresidents) of the United
22  States or Canada shall be the same in amount as provided for
23  residents, except that dependents in any foreign country shall
24  be limited to surviving spouse and child or children, or if
25  there be no surviving spouse or child or children, to
26  surviving father or mother whom the employee has supported,
27  either wholly or in part, for the period of 1 year prior to
28  the date of the injury, and except that the judge of
29  compensation claims may, at the option of the judge of
30  compensation claims, or upon the application of the insurance
31  carrier, commute all future installments of compensation to be
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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 2270
    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 803798
 1  paid to such aliens by paying or causing to be paid to them
 2  one-half of the commuted amount of such future installments of
 3  compensation as determined by the judge of compensation
 4  claims, and provided further that compensation to dependents
 5  referred to in this subsection shall in no case exceed
 6  $75,000.
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 8  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)
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12  And the title is amended as follows:
13         On page 2, line 1, after the semicolon,
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16         amending s. 440.16(7), F.S., which limits
17         workers' compensation benefits to a nonresident
18         alien for the death of the worker;
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