Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 728
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: RS            .                                
                  03/09/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Flores) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
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    3         Between lines 490 and 491
    4  insert:
    5         (a) Benefits are payable by mail or electronically.
    6  Notwithstanding s. 409.942(4), the agency may develop a system
    7  for the payment of benefits by electronic funds transfer,
    8  including, but not limited to, debit cards, electronic payment
    9  cards, or any other means of electronic payment that the agency
   10  deems to be commercially viable or cost-effective, except that
   11  an individual being paid by electronic funds transfer to an
   12  individual checking or savings account when another electronic
   13  payment system becomes operational may continue to be paid in
   14  that manner until the expiration of the claim. Commodities or
   15  services related to the development of such a system shall be
   16  procured by competitive solicitation, unless they are purchased
   17  from a state term contract pursuant to s. 287.056. The agency
   18  shall adopt rules necessary to administer this paragraph the
   19  system.
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   22  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   23         And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   24         Delete line 484
   25  and insert:
   26         Section 5. Effective July 1, 2011,
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   29  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   30         And the title is amended as follows:
   31         Delete line 28
   32  and insert:
   33         443.111, F.S.; revising the manner in which benefits are
   34  payable; eliminating payment by mail; conforming provisions to
   35  changes made
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