Senate Bill 1074c1

    Florida Senate - 1998                           CS for SB 1074

    By the Committee on Governmental Reform and Oversight and
    Senator Silver




    302-2065-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Florida Retirement

  3         System; amending s. 121.055, F.S.; adding

  4         assistant state attorneys, assistant statewide

  5         prosecutors, and assistant public defenders to

  6         the Senior Management Service Class of the

  7         Florida Retirement System; providing an

  8         effective date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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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

15  hereby established a separate class of membership within the

16  Florida Retirement System to be known as the "Senior

17  Management Service Class," which shall become effective

18  February 1, 1987.

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20         (h)1.  Except as provided in subparagraph 3., effective

21  January 1, 1994, participation in the Senior Management

22  Service Class shall be compulsory for the State Courts

23  Administrator and the Deputy State Courts Administrators, the

24  Clerk of the Supreme Court, the Marshal of the Supreme Court,

25  the Executive Director of the Justice Administrative

26  Commission, the Capital Collateral Representative, the clerks

27  of the district courts of appeals, the marshals of the

28  district courts of appeals, and the trial court administrator

29  in each judicial circuit. Effective January 1, 1994,

30  additional positions in the offices of the state attorney and

31  public defender in each judicial circuit may be designated for

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  1  inclusion in the Senior Management Service Class of the

  2  Florida Retirement System, provided that:

  3         a.  Positions to be included in the class shall be

  4  designated by the state attorney or public defender, as

  5  appropriate.  Notice of intent to designate positions for

  6  inclusion in the class shall be published once a week for 2

  7  consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation

  8  published in the county or counties affected, as provided in

  9  chapter 50.

10         b.  One nonelective full-time position may be

11  designated for each state attorney and public defender

12  reporting to the Division of Retirement; for agencies with 200

13  or more regularly established positions under the state

14  attorney or public defender, additional nonelective full-time

15  positions may be designated, not to exceed 0.5 percent of the

16  regularly established positions within the agency.

17         c.  Each position added to the class must be a

18  managerial or policymaking position filled by an employee who

19  serves at the pleasure of the state attorney or public

20  defender without civil service protection, and who:

21         (I)  Heads an organizational unit; or

22         (II)  Has responsibility to effect or recommend

23  personnel, budget, expenditure, or policy decisions in his or

24  her areas of responsibility.

25         2.  Participation in this class shall be compulsory,

26  except as provided in subparagraph 3., for any judicial

27  employee who holds a position designated for coverage in the

28  Senior Management Service Class and such participation shall

29  continue until the employee terminates employment in a covered

30  position. Effective January 1, 1999, participation in this

31  class shall be compulsory for assistant state attorneys,

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  1  assistant statewide prosecutors, and assistant public

  2  defenders.

  3         3.  In lieu of participation in the Senior Management

  4  Service Class, such members may participate in the Senior

  5  Management Service Optional Annuity Program as established in

  6  subsection (6).

  7         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 1998.

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  9          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
10                         Senate Bill 1074

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12  The Committee Substitute places assistant state attorneys,
    assistant statewide prosecutors, and assistant public
13  defenders in the Senior Management Class of the Florida
    Retirement System.
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