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The Committee on Commerce (Siplin) recommended the following

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amendment:

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     Senate Amendment

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     Delete lines 25-45

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and insert:

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his or her base period to qualify for benefits, the Agency for

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Workforce Innovation must designate the alternative base period

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to be his or her base period. As used in this subsection, the

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term "alternative base period" means the last four completed

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calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of an

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

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establish a monetarily eligible benefit year may not be applied

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to establish monetary eligibility in any succeeding benefit year.

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If information regarding wages for the calendar quarter or

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quarters immediately preceding the benefit year has not been

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entered into the Agency for Workforce Innovation's mainframe

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database from the regular quarterly reports of wage information

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or is otherwise unavailable, the Agency for Workforce Innovation

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shall request such information from the employer by mail. An

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employer must provide the requested wage information within 10

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days after the Agency for Workforce Innovation mails the request

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to the employer. An employer that fails to provide the requested

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wage information within the required time is subject to the

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penalty for delinquent reports in s. 443.141(1)(b).

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     (b) For monetary determinations based upon the alternative

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base period, if the Agency for Workforce Innovation is unable to

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access the wage information through its mainframe database, the

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Agency for Workforce Innovation may base

4/7/2008  5:11:00 PM     577-06870-08