Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1120
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/25/2014           .                                
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       Domestic Security (Abruzzo) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Section 115.135, Florida Statutes, is created to
    6  read:
    7         115.135 Leave considerations; spouses of military
    8  servicemembers in active military service.—
    9         (1) For purposes of this section, the term:
   10         (a) “Employing agency” has the same meaning as in s.
   11  110.107(24).
   12         (b) “Active military service” does not include active duty
   13  training.
   14         (2) An employing agency may not:
   15         (a) Compel an employee who is the spouse of a servicemember
   16  of the United States Armed Forces to work hours in excess of the
   17  scheduled hours in the employee’s established work period during
   18  a period in which his or her spouse is deployed on active
   19  military service at a location other than the servicemember’s
   20  permanent duty station.
   21         (b) Impose a sanction or penalty upon an employee who is
   22  the spouse of a servicemember of the United States Armed Forces
   23  for failure or refusal to work hours in excess of the scheduled
   24  hours in the employee’s established work period during a period
   25  in which his or her spouse is deployed on active military
   26  service at a location other than the servicemember’s permanent
   27  duty station.
   28         (3) An employing agency shall grant a request by an
   29  employee who is the spouse of a servicemember of the United
   30  States Armed Forces deployed on active military service at a
   31  location other than the servicemember’s permanent duty station
   32  for unpaid leave not to exceed 4 working days per deployment for
   33  the purpose of attending to matters directly related to the
   34  implementation of deployment orders of his or her spouse. Leave
   35  taken pursuant to this subsection shall run concurrently with
   36  any qualifying exigency leave granted by the public employer
   37  pursuant to the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, as
   38  amended, 29 U.S.C. ss. 2601 et seq.
   39         (4) The Department of Management Services may adopt rules
   40  to administer this section.
   41         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.
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   44  And the title is amended as follows:
   45         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   46  and insert:
   47                        A bill to be entitled                      
   48         An act relating to military affairs; creating s.
   49         115.135, F.S.; defining terms; prohibiting an
   50         employing agency from compelling an employee who is
   51         the spouse of a military servicemember to work
   52         extended work hours during active military service
   53         deployment of his or her spouse under specified
   54         circumstances; prohibiting the imposition of a
   55         sanction or penalty upon such employee for failure or
   56         refusal to work extended work hours during the period
   57         of his or her spouse’s active military service
   58         deployment under specified circumstances; requiring a
   59         public employer to grant a request by such employee
   60         for unpaid leave for certain purposes during the
   61         active military service deployment under specified
   62         circumstances; providing a limitation on such unpaid
   63         leave; authorizing the Department of Management
   64         Services to adopt rules; providing an effective date.