Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1268
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Latvala) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 41 - 59
    4  and insert:
    5         48.031 Service of process generally; service of witness
    6  subpoenas.—
    7         (1)
    8         (b) Employers, when contacted by an individual authorized
    9  to make service of process, must allow shall permit the
   10  authorized individual to make service on employees in a private
   11  area designated by the employer. An employer who fails to comply
   12  with this paragraph is guilty of a non-criminal violation,
   13  punishable by a fine of up to $1,000.
   14         (2)
   15         (b) Substitute service may be made on an individual doing
   16  business as a sole proprietorship at his or her place of
   17  business, during regular business hours, by serving the person
   18  in charge of the business at the time of service if two or more
   19  attempts to serve the owner have been made at the place of
   20  business.
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   23         And the title is amended as follows:
   24         Delete lines 5 - 11
   25  and insert:
   26         requiring an employer to allow an authorized
   27         individual to make service on an employee in a private
   28         area designated by the employer; providing a civil
   29         fine for employers failing to comply with the process;
   30         authorizing substitute service during the second
   31         attempt of service at a business that is a sole