The Florida Senate

175.181  Beneficiaries.--

(1)  Each firefighter may, on a form provided for that purpose, signed and filed with the board of trustees, designate a beneficiary (or beneficiaries) to receive the benefit, if any, which may be payable in the event of his or her death; and each designation may be revoked by such firefighter by signing and filing with the board of trustees a new designation-of-beneficiary form.

(2)  If a deceased firefighter fails to name a beneficiary in the manner prescribed in subsection (1), or if the beneficiary (or beneficiaries) named by a deceased firefighter predecease the firefighter, the death benefit, if any, which may be payable under the plan with respect to such deceased firefighter may be paid, in the discretion of the board of trustees, either to:

(a)  The spouse or dependent children of the firefighter; or

(b)  The dependent living parents of the firefighter.

(3)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the surviving spouse of any pension participant member killed in the line of duty shall not lose survivor retirement benefits if the spouse remarries. The surviving spouse of such deceased member whose benefit terminated because of remarriage shall have the benefit reinstated as of July 1, 1994, at an amount that would have been payable had such benefit not been terminated. This paragraph shall apply to all municipalities which receive state excise tax moneys as provided in s. 175.101.

History.--s. 1, ch. 63-249; s. 11, ch. 81-168; s. 4, ch. 94-171; s. 1450, ch. 95-147.