Bill Text: FL S0414 | 2023 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel Membership in the Senior Management Service Class

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2023-05-05 - Died in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice [S0414 Detail]

Download: Florida-2023-S0414-Introduced.html
       Florida Senate - 2023                                     SB 414
       
       
        
       By Senator Bradley
       
       
       
       
       
       6-00693A-23                                            2023414__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to criminal conflict and civil
    3         regional counsel membership in the Senior Management
    4         Service Class; amending s. 121.055, F.S.; providing
    5         that participation in the Senior Management Service
    6         Class of the Florida Retirement System is compulsory
    7         for each district’s assistant regional counsel
    8         supervisors, beginning on a specified date; providing
    9         an appropriation; providing an effective date.
   10          
   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   12  
   13         Section 1. Paragraph (m) of subsection (1) of section
   14  121.055, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   15         121.055 Senior Management Service Class.—There is hereby
   16  established a separate class of membership within the Florida
   17  Retirement System to be known as the “Senior Management Service
   18  Class,” which shall become effective February 1, 1987.
   19         (1)
   20         (m)1. Effective July 1, 2020, participation in the Senior
   21  Management Service Class is compulsory for each appointed
   22  criminal conflict and civil regional counsel and each district’s
   23  assistant regional counsel chiefs, administrative directors, and
   24  chief investigators.
   25         2. Effective July 1, 2023, participation in the Senior
   26  Management Service Class is compulsory for each district’s
   27  assistant regional counsel supervisors.
   28         3. A Senior Management Service Class member under this
   29  paragraph may purchase additional retirement credit in the class
   30  for creditable service within the purview of the Senior
   31  Management Service Class retroactive to October 1, 2007, and may
   32  upgrade retirement credit for such service in accordance with
   33  paragraph (j). However, this service credit may not be purchased
   34  by the employer on behalf of the member.
   35         Section 2. For the 2023-2024 fiscal year, the sum of
   36  $950,000 in recurring funds is appropriated from the General
   37  Revenue Fund to the offices of the Criminal Conflict and Civil
   38  Regional Counsel for the purpose of paying retirement benefits
   39  for specified positions within those offices.
   40         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.

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