Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 728
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/09/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Richter) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 77 and 78
    4  insert:
    5         Section 2. Section 443.031, Florida Statutes, is amended to
    6  read:
    7  	443.031 Rule of liberal construction.—This chapter shall be
    8  liberally construed to accomplish its purpose to promote
    9  employment security by increasing opportunities for reemployment
   10  and to provide, through the accumulation of reserves, for the
   11  payment of compensation to individuals with respect to their
   12  unemployment. The Legislature hereby declares its intention to
   13  provide for carrying out the purposes of this chapter in
   14  cooperation with the appropriate agencies of other states and of
   15  the Federal Government as part of a nationwide employment
   16  security program, and particularly to provide for meeting the
   17  requirements of Title III, the requirements of the Federal
   18  Unemployment Tax Act, and the Wagner-Peyser Act of June 6, 1933,
   19  entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment of a national
   20  employment system and for cooperation with the states in the
   21  promotion of such system, and for other purposes," each as
   22  amended, in order to secure for this state and its citizens the
   23  grants and privileges available under such acts. All doubts in
   24  favor of a claimant of unemployment benefits who is unemployed
   25  through no fault of his or her own. Any doubt as to the proper
   26  construction of any provision of this chapter shall be resolved
   27  in favor of conformity with such requirements federal law,
   28  including, but not limited to, the Federal Unemployment Tax Act,
   29  the Social Security Act, the Wagner-Peyser Act, and the
   30  Workforce Investment Act.
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   33         And the title is amended as follows:
   34         Delete line 6
   35  and insert:
   36         understanding; amending s. 443.031, F.S.; revising
   37         provisions relating to statutory construction;
   38         amending s. 443.036, F.S.; revising the