Florida Senate - 2013 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 458
Barcode 206508
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: WD .
04/01/2013 .
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The Committee on Appropriations (Ring) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment to Amendment (326778)
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3 Delete lines 700 - 759
4 and insert:
5 (16) “Minimum benefits” means the benefits set forth in ss.
6 185.01-185.341 and ss. 185.37-185.50.
7 (17) “Minimum standards” means the standards set forth in
8 ss. 185.01-185.341 and ss. 185.37-185.50.
9 (18)(11) “Police officer” means any person who is elected,
10 appointed, or employed full time by a any municipality, who is
11 certified or required to be certified as a law enforcement
12 officer in compliance with s. 943.1395, who is vested with
13 authority to bear arms and make arrests, and whose primary
14 responsibility is the prevention and detection of crime or the
15 enforcement of the penal, criminal, traffic, or highway laws of
16 the state. The term This definition includes all certified
17 supervisory and command personnel whose duties include, in whole
18 or in part, the supervision, training, guidance, and management
19 responsibilities of full-time law enforcement officers, part
20 time law enforcement officers, or auxiliary law enforcement
21 officers, but does not include part-time law enforcement
22 officers or auxiliary law enforcement officers as those terms
23 the same are defined in s. 943.10(6) and (8), respectively. For
24 the purposes of this chapter only, the term also includes
25 “police officer” also shall include a public safety officer who
26 is responsible for performing both police and fire services. Any
27 plan may provide that the police chief shall have an option to
28 participate, or not, in that plan.
29 (19)(12) “Police Officers’ Retirement Trust Fund” means a
30 trust fund, by whatever name known, as provided under s. 185.03
31 for the purpose of assisting municipalities in establishing and
32 maintaining a retirement plan for police officers.
33 (20) “Required benefits” means the lesser of the minimum
34 benefits set forth in this chapter and the base benefits of the
35 plan. For local law plans created after March 1, 2013, the
36 required benefits are the minimum benefits set forth in this
37 chapter.
38 (21)(13) “Retiree” or “retired police officer” means a
39 police officer who has entered retirement status. For the
40 purposes of a plan that includes a Deferred Retirement Option
41 Plan (DROP), a police officer who enters the DROP is shall be
42 considered a retiree for all purposes of the plan. However, a
43 police officer who enters the DROP and who is otherwise eligible
44 to participate may shall not thereby be precluded from
45 participating, or continuing to participate, in a supplemental
46 plan in existence on, or created after, March 12, 1999 the
47 effective date of this act.
48 (22)(14) “Retirement” means a police officer’s separation
49 from city employment as a police officer with immediate
50 eligibility for receipt of benefits under the plan. For purposes
51 of a plan that includes a Deferred Retirement Option Plan
52 (DROP), “retirement” means the date a police officer enters the
53 DROP.
54 (23) “Special benefits” means benefits provided in a
55 defined contribution plan for police officers.
56 (24)(15) “Supplemental plan” means a plan to which deposits
57 of the premium tax moneys as provided in s. 185.08 are made to
58 provide extra benefits to police officers, or police officers
59 and firefighters if both are where included, under this chapter.
60 Such a plan is an element of a local law plan and exists in
61 conjunction with a defined benefit component plan that meets the
62 required minimum benefits and minimum standards of this chapter.
63 Any supplemental plan in existence on March 1, 2013, shall be
64 deemed to be defined contribution plan in compliance with s.
65 185.35(8).
66 (25)(16) “Supplemental plan municipality” means a any local
67 law municipality in which there existed a supplemental plan
68 existed as of December 1, 2000.