Florida Senate - 2025                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 2-C
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             02/13/2025 09:36 AM       .                                
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       Senator Pizzo moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 325 and 326
    4  insert:
    5         Section 9. Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section
    6  448.095, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         448.095 Employment eligibility.—
    8         (2) EMPLOYMENT VERIFICATION.—
    9         (b)1. A public agency shall use the E-Verify system to
   10  verify a new employee’s employment eligibility as required under
   11  paragraph (a).
   12         2. Beginning on July 1, 2025 2023, a private employer with
   13  25 or more employees shall use the E-Verify system to verify a
   14  new employee’s employment eligibility as required under
   15  paragraph (a).
   16         3. Each employer required to use the E-Verify system under
   17  this paragraph must certify on its first return each calendar
   18  year to the tax service provider that it is in compliance with
   19  this section when making contributions to or reimbursing the
   20  state’s unemployment compensation or reemployment assistance
   21  system. An employer that voluntarily uses the E-Verify system
   22  may also make such a certification on its first return each
   23  calendar year in order to document such use.
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   26  And the title is amended as follows:
   27         Between lines 21 and 22
   28  insert:
   29         amending s. 448.095, F.S.; requiring that all private
   30         employers, rather than only those employing a
   31         specified number or more of employees, use the E
   32         Verify system to verify a new employee’s employment
   33         eligibility beginning on a specified date; conforming
   34         provisions to changes made by the act;