Senate Bill sb1626

    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 1626

    By Senator Crist





    12-1224-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Florida Retirement

  3         System; amending s. 121.055, F.S.; authorizing

  4         designation of positions within the offices of

  5         the capital collateral regional counsels as

  6         Senior Management Service Class; providing an

  7         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.  Paragraph (h) of subsection (1) of section

12  121.055, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

13         121.055  Senior Management Service Class.--There is

14  hereby established a separate class of membership within the

15  Florida Retirement System to be known as the "Senior

16  Management Service Class," which shall become effective

17  February 1, 1987.

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19         (h)1.  Except as provided in subparagraph 3., effective

20  January 1, 1994, participation in the Senior Management

21  Service Class shall be compulsory for the State Courts

22  Administrator and the Deputy State Courts Administrators, the

23  Clerk of the Supreme Court, the Marshal of the Supreme Court,

24  the Executive Director of the Justice Administrative

25  Commission, the Capital Collateral Regional Counsels, the

26  clerks of the district courts of appeals, the marshals of the

27  district courts of appeals, and the trial court administrator

28  and the Chief Deputy Court Administrator in each judicial

29  circuit. Effective January 1, 1994, additional positions in

30  the offices of the state attorney and public defender in each

31  judicial circuit and in the offices of the capital collateral

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 1  regional counsel in each region may be designated for

 2  inclusion in the Senior Management Service Class of the

 3  Florida Retirement System, provided that:

 4         a.  Positions to be included in the class shall be

 5  designated by the state attorney, or public defender, or

 6  capital collateral regional counsel, as appropriate.  Notice

 7  of intent to designate positions for inclusion in the class

 8  shall be published once a week for 2 consecutive weeks in a

 9  newspaper of general circulation published in the county or

10  counties affected, as provided in chapter 50.

11         b.  One nonelective full-time position may be

12  designated for each state attorney, and public defender, and

13  capital collateral regional counsel reporting to the

14  Department of Management Services; for agencies with 200 or

15  more regularly established positions under the state attorney,

16  or public defender, or capital collateral regional counsel,

17  additional nonelective full-time positions may be designated,

18  not to exceed 0.5 percent of the regularly established

19  positions within the agency.

20         c.  Each position added to the class must be a

21  managerial or policymaking position filled by an employee who

22  serves at the pleasure of the state attorney or public

23  defender without civil service protection, and who:

24         (I)  Heads an organizational unit; or

25         (II)  Has responsibility to effect or recommend

26  personnel, budget, expenditure, or policy decisions in his or

27  her areas of responsibility.

28         2.  Participation in this class shall be compulsory,

29  except as provided in subparagraph 3., for any judicial

30  employee who holds a position designated for coverage in the

31  Senior Management Service Class, and such participation shall

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 1  continue until the employee terminates employment in a covered

 2  position. Effective January 1, 2001, participation in this

 3  class is compulsory for assistant state attorneys, assistant

 4  statewide prosecutors, assistant public defenders, and

 5  assistant capital collateral regional counsels. Effective

 6  January 1, 2002, participation in this class is compulsory for

 7  assistant attorneys general.

 8         3.  In lieu of participation in the Senior Management

 9  Service Class, such members, excluding assistant state

10  attorneys, assistant public defenders, assistant statewide

11  prosecutors, assistant attorneys general, and assistant

12  capital collateral regional counsels, may participate in the

13  Senior Management Service Optional Annuity Program as

14  established in subsection (6).

15         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.

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18                          SENATE SUMMARY

19    Authorizes the capital collateral regional counsels to
      designate positions within their respective offices for
20    inclusion in the Senior Management Service Class of the
      Florida Retirement System.
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