Florida Senate - 2009                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 810
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             04/28/2009 11:25 AM       .                                
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       Senators Hill and Gelber moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    5         Delete line 29
    6  and insert:
    7         Section 1. Subsection (7) of section 443.036, Florida
    8  Statutes, is amended to read:
    9         443.036 Definitions.—As used in this chapter, the term:
   10         (7) “Base period” means the first four of the last five
   11  completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day
   12  of an individual’s benefit year. Wages in a base period used to
   13  establish a monetarily eligible benefit year may not be used to
   14  establish monetary eligibility in a subsequent benefit year.
   15         (a) If information regarding wages for the calendar
   16  quarters immediately preceding the benefit year has not been
   17  entered into the Agency for Workforce Innovation’s mainframe
   18  database from the regular quarterly reports of wage information
   19  submitted under s. 443.163 or is otherwise unavailable, the
   20  agency shall request the information from the employer by mail.
   21  The employer must provide the requested information within 10
   22  days after the agency mails the request. An employer that fails
   23  to provide the requested wage information within the required
   24  time period is subject to the penalty for delinquent reports
   25  under s. 443.141.
   26         (b) For a benefit year commencing on or after January 1,
   27  2010, if an individual is not monetarily eligible in the base
   28  period to qualify for benefits, the Agency for Workforce
   29  Innovation must designate an alternative base period. As used in
   30  this subsection, the term “alternative base period” means the
   31  last four completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the
   32  first day of an individual’s benefit year. If the agency is
   33  unable to access wage information through its mainframe database
   34  for determining monetary eligibility for benefits based on the
   35  individual’s alternative base period, the agency may base the
   36  determination on an affidavit submitted by the individual
   37  attesting to his or her wages for those calendar quarters. The
   38  individual must also furnish payroll information, if available,
   39  in support of the affidavit. Benefits based on an alternative
   40  base period must be adjusted if the quarterly report of wage
   41  information received from the employer under s. 443.141 results
   42  in a change in the monetary determination.
   43         Section 2. Effective January 1, 2010, paragraph (a) of
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   46         And the title is amended as follows:
   47         Delete line 3
   48  and insert:
   49  Fund; amending s. 443.036, F.S.; revising the definition of
   50  “base period;” amending s. 443.1217, F.S.; raising the amount