Florida’s 2008 Regular Legislative Session: Professional Employer Organization/Employee Leasing Companies

The following bills relating to Employee Leasing Companies died during Florida’s 2008 Regular Legislative Session.

Senate Bill 454 / House Bill 239

These bills would have created the “Accurate Employment Statistics Enhancement Act.” The bills would have redefined the term “employee leasing company” for purposes of the Unemployment Compensation Law, and would have required that each employee leasing company to maintain a workers’ compensation policy at all times. Further, the bills would have required an employee leasing company to notify its employees if the company terminated its agreement with a client company. The bills had different effective dates. These bills failed to gain final approval during the Session.

 

Senate Bill 940

This bill would have required employee leasing companies to file quarterly reports with the Labor Market Statistics Center of the Agency for Workforce Innovation (“AWI”) which would include information relating to the client company’s business, number of employees, wages paid, the business relationship between the employee leasing company and the client company, and the internal staff of the employee leasing company. The bill also would have prescribed a format for such reports and the time period within which the reports must be filed, and bill would have granted AWI authority to adopt rules to implement those provisions and to administer, collect, enforce, and waive penalties for failure to file the reports. The substance of this bill was at one time amended onto House Bill 7111; however, both SB 940 and HB 7111 failed to gain final approval. The bill would have been effective on October 1, 2008.