The Florida Senate

443.1316  Contract with Department of Revenue for unemployment tax collection services.--By January 1, 2001, the Agency for Workforce Innovation shall enter into a contract with the Department of Revenue which shall provide for the Department of Revenue to provide unemployment tax collection services. The Department of Revenue, in consultation with the Department of Labor and Employment Security, shall determine the number of positions needed to provide unemployment tax collection services within the Department of Revenue. The number of unemployment tax collection service positions the Department of Revenue determines are needed shall not exceed the number of positions that, prior to the contract, were authorized to the Department of Labor and Employment Security for this purpose. Upon entering into the contract with the Agency for Workforce Innovation to provide unemployment tax collection services, the number of required positions, as determined by the Department of Revenue, shall be authorized within the Department of Revenue. Beginning January 1, 2002, the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability shall conduct a feasibility study regarding privatization of unemployment tax collection services. A report on the conclusions of this study shall be submitted to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The Department of Revenue is considered to be administering a revenue law of this state when the department provides unemployment compensation tax collection services pursuant to a contract of the department with the Agency for Workforce Innovation. Sections 213.018, 213.025, 213.051, 213.053, 213.055, 213.071, 213.10, 213.2201, 213.23, 213.24(2), 213.27, 213.28, 213.285, 213.37, 213.50, 213.67, 213.69, 213.73, 213.733, 213.74, and 213.757 apply to the collection of unemployment contributions by the Department of Revenue unless prohibited by federal law.

History.--s. 56, ch. 2002-218.