| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to wage protection for employees; |
| 3 | prohibiting a county, municipality, or political |
| 4 | subdivision from adopting or maintaining in effect a |
| 5 | law, ordinance, or rule that creates requirements, |
| 6 | regulations, or processes for the purpose of |
| 7 | addressing wage theft; preempting such activities to |
| 8 | the state; defining the term "wage theft"; providing |
| 9 | an effective date. |
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| 11 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 13 | Section 1. (1) A county, municipality, or political |
| 14 | subdivision of the state may not adopt or maintain in effect any |
| 15 | law, ordinance, or rule that creates requirements, regulations, |
| 16 | or processes for the purpose of addressing wage theft. The |
| 17 | regulation of wage theft by counties, municipalities, or |
| 18 | political subdivisions is expressly preempted to the state. |
| 19 | (2) As used in this section, the term "wage theft" means |
| 20 | an illegal or improper underpayment or nonpayment of an |
| 21 | individual worker's wages, salaries, commissions, or other |
| 22 | similar form of compensation. |
| 23 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012. |