Senate Bill sb0072c1

    Florida Senate - 2005                             CS for SB 72

    By the Committee on Transportation and Economic Development
    Appropriations; and Senators Geller and Klein




    606-2370-05

  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 Grant

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, 2005. Each grant shall be

29  awarded to reimburse the employer for not more than one-half

30  of 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 - 2005                             CS for SB 72
    606-2370-05




 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, housing and variable

 6  allowances, and subsistence allowance. The agency shall

 7  develop a plan, by no later than October 1, 2005, subject to

 8  the notice, review, and objection procedures of section

 9  216.177, Florida Statutes, to administer the application and

10  payment procedures for the matching grant program. The Agency

11  for Workforce Innovation shall not award any matching grants

12  prior to the approval of the plan. The matching grant program

13  shall be funded by specific legislative appropriations.

14         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.

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16          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
17                          Senate Bill 72

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19  Includes in the calculation of the grant to be paid under the
    program the housing allowance and subsistence allowance of
20  those Florida residents serving on federal active duty in the
    United States Armed Forces Reserves or the Florida National
21  Guard.

22  Specifies that the plan for administering the program must be
    developed by October 1, 2005.
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