Florida Senate - 2021                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1906
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Brodeur moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (774412) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Delete lines 230 - 242
    5  and insert:
    6         (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), an individual’s
    7  “weekly benefit amount” is an amount equal to one twenty-sixth
    8  of the total wages for insured work paid during that quarter of
    9  the base period in which the total wages paid were the highest,
   10  but not less than $100 $32 or more than $375 $275. The weekly
   11  benefit amount, if not a multiple of $1, is rounded downward to
   12  the nearest full dollar amount. The maximum weekly benefit
   13  amount in effect at the time the claimant establishes an
   14  individual weekly benefit amount is the maximum benefit amount
   15  applicable throughout the claimant’s benefit year.
   16         (b) If an individual’s weekly benefit calculated pursuant
   17  to paragraph (a) would result in a weekly benefit amount of less
   18  than $100, the individual’s weekly benefit amount may not exceed
   19  one-thirteenth of the total wages for insured work paid during
   20  the quarter of the base period in which the total wages paid
   21  were the highest or $100, whichever is less.
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   23  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   24  And the title is amended as follows:
   25         Delete lines 19 - 23
   26  and insert:
   27         requiring the department to adopt rules; revising the
   28         weekly benefit amounts an individual may receive;
   29         replacing the term “Florida average