2024 Regular SessionFlorida Legislature

S1260: Verification of Reemployment Assistance Benefit Eligibility

Legislative Summary

Citing this act as the "Promoting Work, Deterring Fraud Act of 2024"; providing requirements for reemployment assistance benefit conditions for non-Florida residents; removing requirements that certain skills assessments of claimants be voluntary; revising circumstances under which the department disqualifies claimants from benefits; requiring the department to verify claimants' identities before paying benefits; requiring the department to procure an online workforce search and match tool for a specified purpose, etc.

Bill History

1/3/2024
Filed
Senate
1/10/2024
Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Fiscal Policy
Senate
1/10/2024
Introduced
Senate
1/18/2024
On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 01/23/24, 1:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
Senate
1/23/2024
Favorable by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 4 NAYS 2
Senate
1/24/2024
Now in Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
Senate
2/15/2024
On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, 02/20/24, 1:30 pm, 301 Senate Building --Temporarily Postponed
Senate
3/8/2024
Died in Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
Senate

Amendments

Senate Committee Amendment #121838

2/19/2024Not Adopted

Senate Committee Substitue Amendment #823044 Amendment (Delete All) (121838)

2/19/2024Not Adopted

Roll Call Votes

Senate Commerce and Tourism
1/23/2024
4
Yea
2
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED

Status Information

Current Status
Failed(3/8/2024)
Chamber
Senate
Sine DiePrior Session

Sponsors

Republican: 1

Primary Sponsor

Jay Trumbull
Jay Trumbull
Republican

Documents

Introduced
Bill Text1/3/202426.0 KB
Veto Letter
Veto Letter2/19/2024283.5 KB
Veto Letter
Veto Letter1/24/2024283.7 KB
Veto Letter
Veto Letter1/22/2024283.6 KB