Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1416
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  03/01/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism,
       and Economic Development Appropriations (Bogdanoff) recommended
       the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 1701 - 1748
    4  and insert:
    5         Innovation shall contract with one or more consumer
    6  reporting agency agencies to provide users with secured
    7  electronic access to employer-provided information relating to
    8  the quarterly wages report submitted in accordance with the
    9  state’s reemployment assistance unemployment compensation law.
   10  The access is limited to the wage reports for the appropriate
   11  amount of time for the purpose the information is requested.
   12         (2) Users must obtain consent in writing or by electronic
   13  signature from an applicant for credit, employment, or other
   14  permitted purposes. Any written or electronic signature consent
   15  from an applicant must be signed and must include the following:
   16         (c) Notice that the files of the Department of Economic
   17  Opportunity Agency for Workforce Innovation or its tax
   18  collection service provider containing information concerning
   19  wage and employment history which is submitted by the applicant
   20  or his or her employers may be accessed; and
   21         (4) If a consumer reporting agency or user violates this
   22  section, the Department of Economic Opportunity Agency for
   23  Workforce Innovation shall, upon 30 days’ written notice to the
   24  consumer reporting agency, terminate the contract established
   25  between the department Agency for Workforce Innovation and the
   26  consumer reporting agency or require the consumer reporting
   27  agency to terminate the contract established between the
   28  consumer reporting agency and the user under this section.
   29         (5) The Department of Economic Opportunity Agency for
   30  Workforce Innovation shall establish minimum audit, security,
   31  net worth, and liability insurance standards, technical
   32  requirements, and any other terms and conditions considered
   33  necessary in the discretion of the state agency to safeguard the
   34  confidentiality of the information released under this section
   35  and to otherwise serve the public interest. The department
   36  Agency for Workforce Innovation shall also include, in
   37  coordination with any necessary state agencies, necessary audit
   38  procedures to ensure that these rules are followed.
   39         (6) In contracting with one or more consumer reporting
   40  agency agencies under this section, any revenues generated by
   41  the contract must be used to pay the entire cost of providing
   42  access to the information. Further, in accordance with federal
   43  regulations, any additional revenues generated by the Department
   44  of Economic Opportunity Agency for Workforce Innovation or the
   45  state under this section must be paid into the Administrative
   46  Trust Fund of the department Agency for Workforce Innovation for
   47  the administration of the unemployment compensation system or be
   48  used as program income.
   49         (7) The Department of Economic Opportunity Agency for
   50  Workforce Innovation may not provide wage and employment history
   51  information to any consumer reporting agency before the consumer
   52  reporting agency or agencies under contract with the department
   53  
   54  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   55         And the title is amended as follows:
   56         Delete lines 51 - 61
   57  and insert:
   58         to conform to changes made by the act; amending s.
   59         443.17161, F.S.; requiring the Department of Economic
   60         Opportunity to contract with one consumer reporting
   61         agency to access wage reports; revising references to
   62         conform to changes made by the act; amending ss.
   63         20.60, 27.52, 40.24, 45.031, 55.204, 57.082, 61.046,
   64         61.1824, 61.30, 69.041, 77.041, 110.205, 110.502,
   65         120.80, 125.9502, 212.096, 213.053, 216.292, 220.03,
   66         220.181, 220.191, 220.194, 222.15, 222.16, 255.20,
   67         288.075, 288.1045, 288.106, 288.1081, 288.1089,
   68         334.30, 408.809, 409.2563, 409.2576, 414.295, 435.06,
   69         440.12, 440.15, 440.381, 440.42, 443.051, 443.111,
   70         443.1113, 443.1116, 443.1215, 443.1312, 443.1313,
   71         443.1315, 443.1316, 443.1317, 443.141, 443.163,
   72         443.181, 443.191, 443.221, 445.009,