Bill Text: FL S1290 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Military Affairs

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-05-03 - Died in Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security [S1290 Detail]

Download: Florida-2013-S1290-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2013                                    SB 1290
       
       
       
       By Senator Sobel
       
       
       
       
       33-01327-13                                           20131290__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to military affairs; creating s.
    3         115.135, F.S.; providing that an employee of the state
    4         or any county, municipality, or other political
    5         subdivision who is the spouse of a military
    6         servicemember may not be compelled to work overtime or
    7         extended work hours during active duty deployment of
    8         his or her spouse; prohibiting the imposition of a
    9         sanction or penalty upon such employee for failure or
   10         refusal to work overtime or extended work hours during
   11         the period of his or her spouse’s active duty
   12         deployment; requiring an employing authority to grant
   13         a request by such employee for unpaid leave for
   14         specified purposes during the active duty deployment;
   15         providing a limitation on such unpaid leave; providing
   16         an effective date.
   17  
   18  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   20         Section 1. Section 115.135, Florida Statutes, is created to
   21  read:
   22         115.135 Overtime and leave considerations; spouses of
   23  military servicemembers on active duty.—
   24         (1)(a) An employee of the state or any county,
   25  municipality, or other political subdivision who is the spouse
   26  of a servicemember of the United States Armed Forces may not be
   27  compelled by his or her employing authority to work overtime or
   28  extended work hours during a period in which his or her spouse
   29  is deployed on active duty military service.
   30         (b) An employing authority may not impose a sanction or
   31  penalty upon an employee who is the spouse of a servicemember of
   32  the United States Armed Forces for failure or refusal to work
   33  overtime or extended work hours during a period in which his or
   34  her spouse is deployed on active duty military service.
   35         (2) An employing authority shall grant a request by an
   36  employee who is the spouse of a servicemember of the United
   37  States Armed Forces deployed on active duty military service for
   38  unpaid leave not to exceed 4 working days for the purpose of
   39  attending to matters directly related to the implementation of
   40  deployment orders of his or her spouse.
   41         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.