Bill Amendment: FL S1906 | 2021 | Regular Session

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Reemployment Assistance

Status: 2021-04-30 - Died in Messages; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 1463 (Ch. 2021-25) [S1906 Detail]

Download: Florida-2021-S1906-Senate_Floor_Amendment_774412.html

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