context: In this context, the legislature's creation of a residency requirement in subsection (4)(d)(4) of section 627.736 must be read narrowly as a pure residency requirement and not a requirement that includes elements of either domicile or citizenship. The legislature did not intend the receipt of PIP benefits and the corollary application of the no-fault threshold to be dependent upon a claimant's right to vote or his domicile or citizenship in Florida. Although this statutorily mandated insurance is not a government program, a more provincial definition would raise other questions of a constitutional dimension.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 403 U.S. 365, 374
citation_a.parenthetical: finding welfare laws conditioning benefits on citizenship and imposing durational residency requirement on aliens violative of equal protection clause
citation_a.sentence: See Graham v. Richardson, 403 U.S. 365, 374, 91 S.Ct. 1848, 29 L.Ed.2d 534 (1971) (finding welfare laws conditioning benefits on citizenship and imposing durational residency requirement on aliens violative of equal protection clause); see also Del Taco v. Workers’ Comp. Appeals Bd., 79 Cal.App.4th 1437, 94 Cal.Rptr.2d 825 (2000) (finding workers’ immigration status did not affect entitlement to temporary disability payments); Gene’s Harvesting v. Rodriguez, 421 So.2d 701(Fla. 1st DCA 1982) (holding claimant’s status as illegal alien did not preclude entitlement to benefits for work-related injury).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.parenthetical: holding claimant's status as illegal alien did not preclude entitlement to benefits for work-related injury
citation_b.sentence: See Graham v. Richardson, 403 U.S. 365, 374, 91 S.Ct. 1848, 29 L.Ed.2d 534 (1971) (finding welfare laws conditioning benefits on citizenship and imposing durational residency requirement on aliens violative of equal protection clause); see also Del Taco v. Workers’ Comp. Appeals Bd., 79 Cal.App.4th 1437, 94 Cal.Rptr.2d 825 (2000) (finding workers’ immigration status did not affect entitlement to temporary disability payments); Gene’s Harvesting v. Rodriguez, 421 So.2d 701(Fla. 1st DCA 1982) (holding claimant’s status as illegal alien did not preclude entitlement to benefits for work-related injury).