Florida Senate - 2021                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1906
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/17/2021           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Brodeur) recommended the
       following:
       
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 130 - 172
    4  and insert:
    5         6. In small counties as defined in s. 120.52(19), a
    6  claimant engaging in systematic and sustained efforts to find
    7  work must contact at least two three prospective employers for
    8  each week of unemployment claimed.
    9         7. The work search requirements of this paragraph do not
   10  apply to persons required to participate in reemployment
   11  services under paragraph (e).
   12         Section 2. Subsection (3) and paragraphs (b) and (c) of
   13  subsection (5) of section 443.111, Florida Statutes, are
   14  amended, and paragraph (b) of subsection (1) is republished, to
   15  read:
   16         443.111 Payment of benefits.—
   17         (1) MANNER OF PAYMENT.—Benefits are payable from the fund
   18  in accordance with rules adopted by the Department of Economic
   19  Opportunity, subject to the following requirements:
   20         (b) As required under s. 443.091(1), each claimant must
   21  report at least biweekly to receive reemployment assistance
   22  benefits and to attest to the fact that she or he is able and
   23  available for work, has not refused suitable work, is seeking
   24  work and has met the requirements of s. 443.091(1)(d), and, if
   25  she or he has worked, to report earnings from that work. Each
   26  claimant must continue to report regardless of any appeal or
   27  pending appeal relating to her or his eligibility or
   28  disqualification for benefits.
   29         (3) WEEKLY BENEFIT AMOUNT.—An individual’s “weekly benefit
   30  amount” is an amount equal to one twenty-sixth of the total
   31  wages for insured work paid during that quarter of the base
   32  period in which the total wages paid were the highest, but not
   33  less than $100 $32 or more than $375 $275. The weekly benefit
   34  amount, if not a multiple of $1, is rounded downward to the
   35  nearest full dollar amount. The maximum weekly benefit amount in
   36  effect at the time the claimant establishes an individual weekly
   37  benefit amount is the maximum benefit amount applicable
   38  throughout the claimant’s benefit year.
   39         (5) DURATION OF BENEFITS.—
   40         (b) Each otherwise eligible individual is entitled during
   41  any benefit year to a total amount of benefits equal to 25
   42  percent of the total wages in his or her base period, not to
   43  exceed $8,625 $6,325 or the product arrived at by multiplying
   44  the weekly benefit amount with the number of weeks determined in
   45  paragraph (c), whichever is less. However, the total amount of
   46  benefits, if not a multiple of $1, is rounded downward to the
   47  nearest full dollar amount. These benefits are payable at a
   48  weekly rate no greater than the weekly benefit amount.
   49         (c) For claims submitted during a calendar year, the
   50  duration of benefits is limited to:
   51         1. Fourteen Twelve weeks if this state’s average
   52  unemployment rate is at or below 5 percent.
   53         2. An additional week in addition to the 12 weeks for each
   54  0.5 percent increment in this state’s average unemployment rate
   55  above 5 percent.
   56         3. Up to a maximum of 25 23 weeks if this state’s average
   57  unemployment rate equals or exceeds 10.5 percent.
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   59  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   60  And the title is amended as follows:
   61         Delete line 8
   62  and insert:
   63         to receive during a benefit year; increasing the
   64         duration of benefits based upon the state’s
   65         unemployment rate; reenacting ss.