Bill Text: FL S1230 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Florida Retirement System [WPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Policy & Steering Committee on Ways and Means [S1230 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S1230-Introduced.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                                    SB 1230 
 
By Senator Crist 
12-00864-10                                           20101230__ 
1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to the Florida Retirement System; 
3         amending s. 121.055, F.S.; authorizing certain 
4         positions in the offices of the capital collateral 
5         regional counsels to be designated for inclusion in 
6         the Senior Management Service Class; providing 
7         requirements for such inclusion; providing an 
8         effective date. 
9 
10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
11 
12         Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subsection (1) of section 
13  121.055, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 
14         121.055 Senior Management Service Class.—There is hereby 
15  established a separate class of membership within the Florida 
16  Retirement System to be known as the “Senior Management Service 
17  Class,” which shall become effective February 1, 1987. 
18         (1) 
19         (h)1. Except as provided in subparagraph 3., effective 
20  January 1, 1994, participation in the Senior Management Service 
21  Class shall be compulsory for the State Courts Administrator and 
22  the Deputy State Courts Administrators, the Clerk of the Supreme 
23  Court, the Marshal of the Supreme Court, the Executive Director 
24  of the Justice Administrative Commission, the capital collateral 
25  regional counsel, the clerks of the district courts of appeals, 
26  the marshals of the district courts of appeals, and the trial 
27  court administrator and the Chief Deputy Court Administrator in 
28  each judicial circuit. Effective January 1, 1994, additional 
29  positions in the offices of the state attorney and public 
30  defender in each judicial circuit and in the offices of the 
31  capital collateral regional counsel in each region may be 
32  designated for inclusion in the Senior Management Service Class 
33  of the Florida Retirement System, provided that: 
34         a. Positions to be included in the class shall be 
35  designated by the state attorney, or public defender, or capital 
36  collateral regional counsel, as appropriate. Notice of intent to 
37  designate positions for inclusion in the class shall be 
38  published once a week for 2 consecutive weeks in a newspaper of 
39  general circulation published in the county or counties 
40  affected, as provided in chapter 50. 
41         b. One nonelective full-time position may be designated for 
42  each state attorney, and public defender, and capital collateral 
43  regional counsel reporting to the Department of Management 
44  Services; for agencies with 200 or more regularly established 
45  positions under the state attorney, or public defender, or 
46  capital collateral regional counsel, additional nonelective 
47  full-time positions may be designated, not to exceed 0.5 percent 
48  of the regularly established positions within the agency. 
49         c. Each position added to the class must be a managerial or 
50  policymaking position filled by an employee who serves at the 
51  pleasure of the state attorney, or public defender, or capital 
52  collateral regional counsel without civil service protection, 
53  and who: 
54         (I) Heads an organizational unit; or 
55         (II) Has responsibility to effect or recommend personnel, 
56  budget, expenditure, or policy decisions in his or her areas of 
57  responsibility. 
58         2. Participation in this class shall be compulsory, except 
59  as provided in subparagraph 3., for any judicial employee who 
60  holds a position designated for coverage in the Senior 
61  Management Service Class, and such participation shall continue 
62  until the employee terminates employment in a covered position. 
63  Effective January 1, 2001, participation in this class is 
64  compulsory for assistant state attorneys, assistant statewide 
65  prosecutors, assistant public defenders, and assistant capital 
66  collateral regional counsel. Effective January 1, 2002, 
67  participation in this class is compulsory for assistant 
68  attorneys general. 
69         3. In lieu of participation in the Senior Management 
70  Service Class, such members, excluding assistant state 
71  attorneys, assistant public defenders, assistant statewide 
72  prosecutors, assistant attorneys general, and assistant capital 
73  collateral regional counsel, may participate in the Senior 
74  Management Service Optional Annuity Program as established in 
75  subsection (6). 
76         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.