Bill Amendment: FL S0222 | 2013 | Regular Session

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Reemployment Assistance

Status: 2013-05-03 - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 7007 (Ch. 2013-39) [S0222 Detail]

Download: Florida-2013-S0222-Commerce_and_Tourism_Committee_Amendment_460538.html

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       Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 222
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  01/22/2013           .                                
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       The Committee on Commerce and Tourism (Bean) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
    2  
    3         Between lines 556 and 557
    4  insert:
    5         (33) “Non-seasonal work” means employment in non-seasonal
    6  industries or employment in seasonal industries outside a
    7  seasonal period.
    8         (34) “Non-seasonal unemployment” means:
    9         (a) An individual’s entire period of unemployment if the
   10  individual has no base period wages in employment by a seasonal
   11  employer; or
   12         (b) An individual’s unemployment occurring outside the
   13  seasonal period or periods in which the individual earned her or
   14  his base period wages.
   15         (41) “Seasonal industry” means an industry which
   16  customarily experiences one or more seasonal periods and is
   17  within the North American Industry Classification System code
   18  311411.
   19         (42) “Seasonal period” means the regularly recurring period
   20  or periods of less than 32 weeks in a calendar year during which
   21  an employer in a seasonal industry requires elevated staffing
   22  levels.
   23         (43) “Seasonal work” means employment in a seasonal
   24  industry during a seasonal period.
   25         (44) “Seasonal unemployment” means unemployment occurring
   26  during a seasonal period corresponding to the seasonal period
   27  during which the individual earned her or his base period wages.
   28         Between lines 1025 and 1026
   29  insert:
   30         Section 17. Subsection (6) is added to section 443.111,
   31  Florida Statutes, to read:
   32         443.111 Payment of benefits.—
   33         (6) SEASONAL AND NON-SEASONAL EMPLOYMENT.—For any
   34  individual who earned base period wages subject to this chapter
   35  for seasonal work, the following conditions shall apply:
   36         1. For any weeks of unemployment claimed during a seasonal
   37  period, all base period wages will be counted in determining the
   38  individual’s weekly benefit amount.
   39         2. For any weeks of unemployment claimed outside the
   40  seasonal period, only wages earned for non-seasonal work will be
   41  counted in determining the individual’s weekly benefit amount.
   42         3. All wages, whether seasonal or non-seasonal, will be
   43  counted for the purpose of establishing a benefit year under
   44  subsection (2).
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   46  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   47         And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   48         Delete lines 509 - 512
   49  and insert:
   50         Section 9. Subsections (12) and (30) of section 443.036,
   51  Florida Statutes, are amended, subsections (33), (34), (41),
   52  (42), (43), and (44), are added, present subsections (13)
   53  through (32) are renumbered as (12) through (31), respectively,
   54  present subsections (33) through (40) are renumbered as (35)
   55  through (42), respectively, and present subsections (41) through
   56  (47) are renumbered as (46) through (52), respectively, to read:
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   58  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   59         And the title is amended as follows:
   60         Between lines 52 and 53
   61  insert:
   62         creating definitions for “non-seasonal work,” “non
   63         seasonal unemployment,” “seasonal industry,” “seasonal
   64         period,” “seasonal work,” and “seasonal unemployment”;
   65         Delete line 69
   66  and insert:
   67         Reemployment Assistance Program; specifying the wages
   68         to be used in the base period for benefits claimed
   69         during a seasonal period; specifying the wages to be
   70         used in the base period for benefits claimed outside
   71         the seasonal period; specifying that all wages will be
   72         counted to establish a benefit year; providing an