Florida Senate - 2009 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. PCS (166284) for SB 810
Barcode 954552
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: FAV .
04/14/2009 .
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The Committee on Commerce (Garcia) recommended the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete lines 211 - 319
4 and insert:
5 Section 3. Subsection (1) and subsection (3) of section
6 443.191, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
7 443.191 Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund; establishment
8 and control.—
9 (1) There is established, as a separate trust fund apart
10 from all other public funds of this state, an Unemployment
11 Compensation Trust Fund, which shall be administered by the
12 Agency for Workforce Innovation exclusively for the purposes of
13 this chapter. The fund shall consist of:
14 (a) All contributions and reimbursements collected under
15 this chapter;
16 (b) Interest earned on any moneys in the fund;
17 (c) Any property or securities acquired through the use of
18 moneys belonging to the fund;
19 (d) All earnings of these properties or securities; and
20 (e) All money credited to this state’s account in the
21 federal Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund under 42 U.S.C. s.
22 1103;. and
23 (f) Advances on the amount in the federal Unemployment
24 Compensation Trust Fund credited to the state under 42 U.S.C. s.
25 1321, as requested by the Governor or the Governor’s designee.
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27 Except as otherwise provided in s. 443.1313(4), all moneys
28 in the fund shall be mingled and undivided.
29 (3) Moneys may only be requisitioned from the state’s
30 account in the federal Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund
31 solely for the payment of benefits and extended benefits and for
32 payment in accordance with rules prescribed by the Agency for
33 Workforce Innovation, or for the repayment of advances made
34 pursuant to 42 U.S.C. s. 1321, as authorized by the Governor or
35 the Governor’s designee, except that money credited to this
36 state’s account under 42 U.S.C. s. 1103 may only be used
37 exclusively as provided in subsection (5). The Agency for
38 Workforce Innovation, through the Chief Financial Officer, shall
39 requisition from the federal Unemployment Compensation Trust
40 Fund amounts, not exceeding the amounts credited to this state’s
41 account in the fund, as necessary for the payment of benefits
42 and extended benefits for a reasonable future period. Upon
43 receipt of these amounts, the Chief Financial Officer shall
44 deposit the moneys in the benefit account in the State Treasury
45 and warrants for the payment of benefits and extended benefits
46 shall be drawn upon the order of the Agency for Workforce
47 Innovation against the account. All warrants for benefits and
48 extended benefits are payable directly to the ultimate
49 beneficiary. Expenditures of these moneys in the benefit account
50 and refunds from the clearing account are not subject to any law
51 requiring specific appropriations or other formal release by
52 state officers of money in their custody. All warrants issued
53 for the payment of benefits and refunds must bear the signature
54 of the Chief Financial Officer. Any balance of moneys
55 requisitioned from this state’s account in the federal
56 Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund which remains unclaimed or
57 unpaid in the benefit account after the period for which the
58 moneys were requisitioned shall be deducted from estimates for,
59 and may be used for the payment of, benefits and extended
60 benefits during succeeding periods, or, in the discretion of the
61 Agency for Workforce Innovation, shall be redeposited with the
62 Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, to the credit of
63 this state’s account in the federal Unemployment Compensation
64 Trust Fund, as provided in subsection (2).
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67 And the title is amended as follows:
68 Delete lines 17 - 19
69 and insert:
70 to the Governor or the Governor’s designee to request advances;
71 related to repayment of advances; providing