HOUSE AMENDMENT Bill No. HB 85 CS
1	CHAMBER ACTION
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12	Representative Brutus offered the following:
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14	Amendment (with title amendment)
15	Between lines 95 and 96, insert:
16	Section 2. (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that
17	Florida’s highway patrol troopers be compensated at wage levels
18	competitive with local law enforcement agencies.
19	(2) Beginning with the 2004-2005 fiscal year, the
20	Legislature shall appropriate funds as it deems necessary from
21	the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Highway Safety and
22	Motor Vehicles to ensure that the average salary for highway
23	patrol troopers is equal to or higher than the average salary
24	for a law enforcement officer employed by the 10 largest county
25	and municipal law enforcement agencies in this state.
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28	Remove line 16, and insert:
29	the state; providing for future repeal; providing
30	legislative intent; providing that the average salary
31	level for highway patrol troopers shall be no less than
32	the average salary for law enforcement officers in certain
33	local agencies; provides that funding shall be
34	appropriated by the Legislature, as it deems necessary,
35	from the General Revenue Fund of the State; level for
36	highway patrol troopers; providing an