Florida Senate - 2005           CONFERENCE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 424, 1st Eng.
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11  The Conference Committee on CS for SB 424, 1st Eng.
12  recommended the following amendment:
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14         Conference Committee Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         Delete everything after the enacting clause
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17  and insert:  
18         Section 1.  (1)  Collective bargaining issues at
19  impasse between the Florida Lottery and the Federation of
20  Public Employees for the Lottery Administrative and Support
21  Unit employees shall be resolved as follows:
22         (a)  All collective bargaining issues at impasse
23  regarding Article 9 "Union Dues Deductions," Article 11 "Work
24  Week," and Article 19 "Holidays" shall be resolved pursuant to
25  the state's last offer dated February 4, 2005.
26         (b)  All mandatory collective bargaining issues at
27  impasse regarding Article 14 "Seniority" shall be resolved
28  pursuant to the state's last offer dated February 4, 2005, for
29  the period July 1, 2005, through May 31, 2006. Beginning June
30  1, 2006, the issues shall be resolved by reverting to the
31  status quo under the language of the current collective
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Florida Senate - 2005 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 424, 1st Eng. Barcode 021372 1 bargaining agreement. 2 (2) All mandatory collective bargaining issues at 3 impasse between the State of Florida and the International 4 Union of Police Associations for Law Enforcement Bargaining 5 Unit employees regarding Article 5 "Employee Representation," 6 Article 14 "Performance Review," Article 18 "Hours of Work, 7 Leave, Job-connected Disability," and Article 24 "On-call 8 assignment - Call back - Court Appearance" shall be resolved 9 by maintaining the status quo under the language of the 10 current collective bargaining agreement. 11 (3) All mandatory collective bargaining issues at 12 impasse between the State of Florida and the Federation of 13 Physicians and Dentists for Selected Exempt Service Physicians 14 Unit employees shall be resolved by maintaining the status quo 15 under the language of the current collective bargaining 16 agreement. 17 (4) All mandatory collective bargaining issues at 18 impasse between the State of Florida and the Police Benevolent 19 Association for the Special Agents Bargaining Unit employees 20 regarding Article 7 "Internal Investigations and Disciplinary 21 Actions," Article 16 "Employment Outside State Government," 22 Article 17 "Department Vehicles," Article 18 "Leave," and 23 Article 23 "Workday, Workweek, and Overtime" shall be resolved 24 by maintaining the status quo under the language of the 25 current collective bargaining agreement. 26 (5) All mandatory collective bargaining issues at 27 impasse between the State of Florida and AFSCME, Council 79, 28 Master Contract Units, for career service employees regarding 29 Article 6 "Grievance Procedure," Article 7 "Discipline and 30 Discharge," Article 8 "Workforce Reduction and Privatization," 31 Article 9 "Reassignment, Transfer, Change in Duty Station," 2 3:52 PM 05/03/05 c0424e1c-04
Florida Senate - 2005 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 424, 1st Eng. Barcode 021372 1 Article 10 "Promotion," Article 12 "Personnel Records," 2 Article 14 "Performance Review," Article 18 "Leaves of 3 Absence, Hours of Work, and Disability," Article 20 4 "Training," Article 21 "Out of Title Work," Article 22 5 "Disability Leave," and Article 23 "Hours of Work/Overtime" 6 shall be resolved pursuant to the state's last offer. 7 (6) All mandatory collective bargaining issues at 8 impasse between the State of Florida and the Florida State 9 Fire Service Association regarding Article 23 "Hours of Work 10 and Overtime" shall be resolved pursuant to the state's last 11 offer. 12 (7) All mandatory collective bargaining issues at 13 impasse between the State of Florida and the Federation of 14 Physicians and Dentists for Selected Exempt Service 15 Supervisory Nonprofessional Unit employees regarding Article 7 16 "Employee Standards of Conduct" shall be resolved pursuant to 17 the state's last offer. 18 (8) All mandatory collective bargaining issues at 19 impasse between the State of Florida and the State Employees 20 Attorneys Guild shall be resolved pursuant to the state's last 21 offer dated February 1, 2005. 22 (9) All other mandatory collective bargaining issues 23 at impasse for the 2005-2006 fiscal year which are not 24 addressed by this act or the General Appropriations Act for 25 the 2005-2006 fiscal year shall be resolved consistent with 26 the personnel rules in effect on May 2, 2005, and by otherwise 27 maintaining the status quo under the language of the current 28 collective bargaining agreements. 29 Section 2. (1) For the period January 1, 2006, 30 through December 31, 2006, the Department of Management 31 Services shall establish within the State Group Insurance 3 3:52 PM 05/03/05 c0424e1c-04
Florida Senate - 2005 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 424, 1st Eng. Barcode 021372 1 Program a State Group Health Insurance Standard Plan, a State 2 Group Health Insurance High Deductible Health Plan, a 3 state-contracted Health Maintenance Organization Standard 4 Plan, and a state-contracted Health Maintenance Organization 5 High Deductible Health Plan. The state-contracted Health 6 Maintenance High Deductible Health Plan may be offered by each 7 of the health maintenance organizations under contract with 8 the Department of Management Services for the 2006 plan year. 9 (2) The State Group Health Insurance High Deductible 10 Plan and the state-contracted Health Maintenance Organization 11 High Deductible Plan shall include a health savings account 12 feature. Such plans and accounts shall be administered in 13 accordance with the requirements and limitations of federal 14 provisions relating to the Medicare Prescription Drug, 15 Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003. The benefit 16 attributes offered under the State Group Health Insurance High 17 Deductible Plan and the state-contracted Health Maintenance 18 Organization High Deductible Plan shall be as determined in 19 the General Appropriations Act. 20 (3)(a) For the period January 1, 2006, through June 21 30, 2006, a COBRA participant participating in a high 22 deductible plan shall pay $325.88 per month for single 23 coverage and $710.82 for family coverage. 24 (b) For the period January 1, 2006, through June 30, 25 2006, an "early retiree" participant participating in a high 26 deductible plan shall pay $319.48 per month for single 27 coverage and $696.88 for family coverage. 28 Section 3. Paragraph (i) is added to subsection (5) of 29 section 110.123, Florida Statutes, and subsection (12) is 30 added to that section, to read: 31 110.123 State group insurance program.-- 4 3:52 PM 05/03/05 c0424e1c-04
Florida Senate - 2005 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 424, 1st Eng. Barcode 021372 1 (5) DEPARTMENT POWERS AND DUTIES.--The department is 2 responsible for the administration of the state group 3 insurance program. The department shall initiate and 4 supervise the program as established by this section and shall 5 adopt such rules as are necessary to perform its 6 responsibilities. To implement this program, the department 7 shall, with prior approval by the Legislature: 8 (i) Contract with a single custodian to provide 9 services necessary to implement and administer the health 10 savings accounts authorized in subsection (12). 11 12 Final decisions concerning enrollment, the existence of 13 coverage, or covered benefits under the state group insurance 14 program shall not be delegated or deemed to have been 15 delegated by the department. 16 (12) HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS.--The department is 17 authorized to establish health savings accounts for full-time 18 and part-time state employees in association with a health 19 insurance plan option authorized by the Legislature and 20 conforming to the requirements and limitations of federal 21 provisions relating to the Medicare Prescription Drug, 22 Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. 23 (a)1. A member participating in this health insurance 24 plan option shall be eligible to receive an employer 25 contribution into the employee's health savings account from 26 the State Employees Health Insurance Trust Fund in an amount 27 to be determined by the Legislature. A member is not eligible 28 for an employer contribution upon termination of employment. 29 For the 2005-2006 fiscal year, the state's monthly 30 contribution for employees having individual coverage shall be 31 $41.66 and the monthly contribution for employees having 5 3:52 PM 05/03/05 c0424e1c-04
Florida Senate - 2005 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 424, 1st Eng. Barcode 021372 1 family coverage shall be $83.33. 2 2. A member participating in this health insurance 3 plan option shall be eligible to deposit the member's own 4 funds into a health savings account. 5 (b) The monthly premiums paid by the employer for a 6 member participating in this health insurance plan option 7 shall include an amount equal to the monthly employer 8 contribution authorized by the Legislature for that fiscal 9 year. 10 (c) The health savings accounts shall be administered 11 in accordance with the requirements and limitations of federal 12 provisions relating to the Medicare Prescription Drug, 13 Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. 14 Section 4. Subsection (7) of section 110.12315, 15 Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 16 110.12315 Prescription drug program.--The state 17 employees' prescription drug program is established. This 18 program shall be administered by the Department of Management 19 Services, according to the terms and conditions of the plan as 20 established by the relevant provisions of the annual General 21 Appropriations Act and implementing legislation, subject to 22 the following conditions: 23 (7) Under the state employees' prescription drug 24 program copayments must be made as follows: 25 (a) Effective January 1, 2004, through December 31, 26 2005: 27 1. For generic drug with card.....................$10. 28 2. For preferred brand name drug with card........$25. 29 3. For nonpreferred brand name drug with card.....$40. 30 4. For generic mail order drug....................$20. 31 5. For preferred brand name mail order drug.......$50. 6 3:52 PM 05/03/05 c0424e1c-04
Florida Senate - 2005 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 424, 1st Eng. Barcode 021372 1 6. For nonpreferred brand name mail order drug....$80. 2 (b) Effective January 1, 2006, through December 31, 3 2006, for the State Group Health Insurance Standard Plan: 4 1. For generic drug with card.....................$10. 5 2. For preferred brand name drug with card........$25. 6 3. For nonpreferred brand name drug with card.....$40. 7 4. For generic mail order drug....................$20. 8 5. For preferred brand name mail order drug.......$50. 9 6. For nonpreferred brand name mail order drug....$80. 10 (c) Effective January 1, 2006, through December 31, 11 2006, for the State Group Health Insurance High Deductible 12 Plan: 13 1. Retail coinsurance for generic drug with card..30%. 14 2. Retail coinsurance for preferred brand name drug 15 with card.................................................30%. 16 3. Retail coinsurance for nonpreferred brand name drug 17 with card.................................................50%. 18 4. Mail order coinsurance for generic drug........30%. 19 5. Mail order coinsurance for preferred brand name 20 drug......................................................30%. 21 6. Mail order coinsurance for nonpreferred brand name 22 drug......................................................50%. 23 (d)(b) The Department of Management Services shall 24 create a preferred brand name drug list to be used in the 25 administration of the state employees' prescription drug 26 program. 27 Section 5. This act shall take effect upon becoming a 28 law. 29 30 31 7 3:52 PM 05/03/05 c0424e1c-04
Florida Senate - 2005 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 424, 1st Eng. Barcode 021372 1 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 2 And the title is amended as follows: 3 Delete everything before the enacting clause 4 5 and insert: 6 A bill to be entitled 7 An act relating to employee benefits; providing 8 for resolving various collective bargaining 9 issues that are at impasse between the State of 10 Florida and the respective employee unit; 11 requiring the Department of Management Services 12 to establish certain insurance plans within the 13 state group insurance program; requiring that 14 certain high deductible plans include a health 15 savings account; providing for the benefit 16 attributes to be determined under the General 17 Appropriations Act; specifying the monthly 18 payment amounts for certain types of coverage; 19 amending s. 110.123, F.S., relating to the 20 state group insurance program; authorizing the 21 department to establish health savings accounts 22 for full-time and part-time state employees; 23 providing for employer contributions into an 24 employee's health savings account from the 25 State Employees Health Insurance Trust Fund; 26 amending s. 110.12315, F.S.; providing 27 additional copayment amounts under the state 28 employees' prescription drug program; providing 29 an effective date. 30 31 8 3:52 PM 05/03/05 c0424e1c-04