Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 458
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    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.