Florida House Bill 509 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on May 2 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-05-02 - Died in Government Operations Subcommittee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires that firefighter pension plans meet certain requirements in order to receive insurance premium tax revenues; revises existing payment provisions & provides for additional mandatory payment by municipality or special fire control district to firefighters' pension trust fund; deletes provision basing availability of additional benefits upon state funding; revises provisions relating to municipalities & special fire control districts that have their own pension plans & want to participate in distribution of tax fund; authorizes municipality to implement certain changes to local law plan; requires that police officer pension plans meet certain requirements in order to receive insurance premium tax revenues; deletes provision allowing local law plan to limit amount of overtime payments which can be used for retirement benefit calculations; revises existing payment provisions & providing for an additional mandatory payment by municipality to police officers' retirement trust fund; revises provisions relating to municipalities that have their own pension plans for police officers & want to participate in distribution of tax fund; requires plan sponsors to have defined contribution plan in place by certain date; authorizes municipality to implement certain changes to local law plan; provides declaration of important state interest.

Local Government Pension Reform

Rep. Matthew Caldwell [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-05-02	House	Died in Government Operations Subcommittee
2014-03-04	House	Introduced
2014-01-16	House	Referred to Government Operations Subcommittee; Appropriations Committee; State Affairs Committee
2014-01-07	House	Filed

S0246 (Same As) 2014-05-02 - Died in Messages
H7179 (Similar To) 2014-05-02 - Died, reference deferred
H7181 (Similar To) 2014-05-02 - Died on Calendar, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 5005 (Ch. 2014-54)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
175	021		Amended Code	See Bill Text
175	032		Amended Code	See Bill Text
175	071		Amended Code	See Bill Text
175	091		Amended Code	See Bill Text
175	162		Amended Code	See Bill Text
175	351		Amended Code	See Bill Text
185	01		Amended Code	See Bill Text
185	02		Amended Code	See Bill Text
185	06		Amended Code	See Bill Text
185	07		Amended Code	See Bill Text
185	16		Amended Code	See Bill Text
185	35		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2014/509
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2014/0509/BillText/Filed/PDF