Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1298
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and
       General Government (Simmons) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraph (f) is added to subsection (2) of
    6  section 440.45, Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         440.45 Office of the Judges of Compensation Claims.—
    8         (2)
    9         (f) Each full-time judge of compensation claims shall
   10  receive a salary equal to that of a county court judge. The
   11  Deputy Chief Judge shall receive a salary of $1,000 more per
   12  year than the salary paid to a full-time judge of compensation
   13  claims.
   14         Section 2. For the 2020-2021 fiscal year, the sum of
   15  $1,114,087 in recurring funds is appropriated from the Operating
   16  Trust Fund to the Division of Administrative Hearings, and the
   17  associated salary rate of 870,392 is authorized, for the
   18  purposes of making salary adjustments to judges of compensation
   19  claims.
   20         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.
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   22  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   23  And the title is amended as follows:
   24         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   25  and insert:
   26                        A bill to be entitled                      
   27         An act relating to the Office of the Judges of
   28         Compensation Claims; amending s. 440.45, F.S.;
   29         specifying the salaries of full-time judges of
   30         compensation claims and the Deputy Chief Judge of
   31         Compensation Claims; providing an appropriation;
   32         providing an effective date.