Senate Bill sb0572c1

    Florida Senate - 2004                            CS for SB 572

    By the Committee on Commerce, Economic Opportunities, and
    Consumer Services; and Senator Geller




    310-2040-04

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to military personnel on duty;

  3         creating the Citizen Soldier Matching Grant

  4         Program within the Agency for Workforce

  5         Innovation; providing for matching grants to be

  6         awarded to private sector employers that

  7         provide wages to employees serving in the

  8         United States Armed Forces Reserves or the

  9         Florida National Guard while those employees

10         are on federal active duty; providing

11         eligibility requirements for grant recipients;

12         directing the Agency for Workforce Innovation

13         to develop a plan to administer the application

14         and payment procedures for the matching grants;

15         providing for the grant program to be funded by

16         legislative appropriations; providing an

17         effective date.

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

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21         Section 1.  Citizen Soldier Matching Grants

22  Program.--The Agency for Workforce Innovation shall establish

23  a matching grant program to award matching grants to private

24  sector employers in this state which provide wages to

25  employees serving in the United States Armed Forces Reserves

26  or the Florida National Guard while those employees are on

27  federal active duty. A grant may not be provided for federal

28  active duty served before January 1, 2004. Each grant shall be

29  awarded to reimburse the employer for no more than one-half of

30  the monthly wages paid to an employee who is a resident of

31  this state for the actual period of federal active duty. The

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    Florida Senate - 2004                            CS for SB 572
    310-2040-04




 1  monthly grant per employee may not exceed one-half of the

 2  difference between the amount of monthly wages paid by the

 3  employer to the employee at the level paid before the date the

 4  employee was called to federal active duty and the amount of

 5  the employee's active duty base pay and benefit package. The

 6  agency shall develop a plan, subject to the notice, review,

 7  and objection procedures of section 216.177, Florida Statutes,

 8  to administer the application and payment procedures for the

 9  matching grant program. The matching grant program shall be

10  funded by legislative appropriations.

11         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2004.

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13          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
14                         Senate Bill 572

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16  The committee substitute specifies that a matching grant must
    only be paid to reimburse an employer for wages paid to the
17  employee and that the grant must not exceed one-half of the
    wages. The committee substitute also clarifies the formula
18  used for calculating the maximum amount of a grant.

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