Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 726
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/20/2013           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Grimsley) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 47 - 70
    4  and insert:
    5  Study Task Force. Workforce Florida, Inc., shall provide
    6  administrative and staff support services relating to the
    7  functions of the task force. The task force shall organize by
    8  September 1, 2013. The task force shall be composed of 11
    9  members. The Director of Workforce Florida, Inc., shall serve as
   10  a member and chair of the task force. The Speaker of the House
   11  of Representatives shall appoint one member who is an economist
   12  with a background in business economics. The President of the
   13  Senate shall appoint one member who is a physician licensed
   14  under chapter 458 or chapter 459 with at least 5 years of
   15  experience in the active practice of medicine. In addition, the
   16  President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
   17  Representatives shall each appoint four additional members to
   18  the task force. The four appointments from the President of the
   19  Senate and the four appointments from the Speaker of the House
   20  of Representatives must each include:
   21         1. A member of the Legislature.
   22         2. An owner of a business in this state which employs fewer
   23  than 50 people.
   24         3. An owner or representative of a business in this state
   25  which employs more than 50 people.
   26         4. A representative of an organization who represents the
   27  nonmanagement employees of a business.
   28         (b) Members of the task force shall serve without
   29  compensation, but are entitled to reimbursement for per diem and
   30  travel expenses in accordance with s. 112.061.
   31         (c) The purpose of the task force is to analyze employer
   32  sponsored family or medical leave benefits and the impact of
   33  state preemption of the regulation of such benefits. The task
   34  force shall develop a report that includes its findings and
   35  recommendations for legislative action regarding the regulation
   36  of family or medical leave benefits. The task force shall submit
   37  the report to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the
   38  Speaker of the House of Representatives by January 15, 2014.
   39         (d) This subsection is repealed June 30, 2014.
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   42         And the title is amended as follows:
   43         Delete lines 9 - 10
   44  and insert:
   45         directing Workforce Florida, Inc., to provide
   46         administrative and staff support services for the task
   47         force; establishing the purpose and composition of the
   48         task force; providing for reimbursement for per diem
   49         and travel expenses; requiring the task force to
   50         submit a report to