| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to resolution of public employee |
| 3 | collective bargaining impasses; amending s. 447.203, F.S.; |
| 4 | specifying legislative body when public employer is the |
| 5 | sheriff; amending s. 447.403, F.S.; delineating role of |
| 6 | sheriff in declaring an impasse and in impasse |
| 7 | proceedings; providing an effective date. |
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| 9 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 11 | Section 1. Subsection (10) of section 447.203, Florida |
| 12 | Statutes, is amended to read: |
| 13 | 447.203 Definitions.--As used in this part: |
| 14 | (10) "Legislative body" means the State Legislature, the |
| 15 | board of county commissioners, the district school board, the |
| 16 | governing body of a municipality, or the governing body of an |
| 17 | instrumentality or unit of government having authority to |
| 18 | appropriate funds and establish policy governing the terms and |
| 19 | conditions of employment and which, as the case may be, is the |
| 20 | appropriate legislative body for the bargaining unit. For |
| 21 | purposes of s. 447.403, the state university board of trustees |
| 22 | shall be deemed to be the legislative body with respect to all |
| 23 | employees of the state university. For purposes of s. 447.403 |
| 24 | the board of trustees of a community college shall be deemed to |
| 25 | be the legislative body with respect to all employees of the |
| 26 | community college. For the purposes of s. 447.403, if the public |
| 27 | employer is the sheriff, the board of county commissioners of |
| 28 | the county served by the sheriff shall be deemed to be the |
| 29 | legislative body with respect to all employees of the sheriff. |
| 30 | Section 2. Paragraph (c) is added to subsection (2) of |
| 31 | section 447.403, Florida Statutes, to read: |
| 32 | 447.403 Resolution of impasses.-- |
| 33 | (2) |
| 34 | (c) If the public employer is a sheriff, the sheriff shall |
| 35 | not preside over any stage of the impasse proceedings. This does |
| 36 | not preclude the sheriff, as the public employer, from declaring |
| 37 | an impasse or from being a party to an impasse proceeding. |
| 38 | Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2007. |