Florida Senate - 2014                                     SB 970
       
       
        
       By Senator Hays
       
       
       
       
       
       11-01022-14                                            2014970__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to employment of veterans; creating s.
    3         295.188, F.S.; authorizing a private employer to give
    4         priority in its hiring practices to certain wartime
    5         veterans and spouses of service-disabled veterans;
    6         providing for applicability; providing an effective
    7         date.
    8          
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Section 295.188, Florida Statutes, is created to
   12  read:
   13         295.188 Employment of veterans.—
   14         (1) A private employer may give priority in its hiring
   15  practices to an eligible person who is:
   16         (a) An honorably discharged veteran, as defined in s.
   17  1.01(14); or
   18         (b) The spouse of a service-disabled veteran, as defined in
   19  s. 295.187(3)(b).
   20         (2) This section does not violate any state or local equal
   21  employment opportunity law.
   22         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.