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Senate Bill 0138
    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 138

    By Senator Forman





    32-47-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to legislative employees;

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

  4         President of the Senate and the Speaker of the

  5         House of Representatives to designate

  6         additional employees of their respective house

  7         who may be required to participate in the

  8         Senior Management Service Class of the Florida

  9         Retirement System; providing an effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section

14  121.055, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

15         121.055  Senior Management Service Class.--There is

16  hereby established a separate class of membership within the

17  Florida Retirement System to be known as the "Senior

18  Management Service Class," which shall become effective

19  February 1, 1987.

20         (1)

21         (c)1.a.  Effective January 1, 1990, participation in

22  the Senior Management Service Class shall be compulsory for up

23  to 75 nonelective positions at the level of committee staff

24  director or higher or equivalent managerial or policymaking

25  positions within the House of Representatives, as selected by

26  the Speaker of the House of Representatives, up to 50

27  nonelective positions at the level of committee staff director

28  or higher or equivalent managerial or policymaking positions

29  within the Senate, as selected by the President of the Senate,

30  all staff directors of Joint Committees of the Legislature,

31  the Auditor General and up to 9 managerial or policymaking

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  1  positions within his or her office as selected by the Auditor

  2  General, and the executive director of the Commission on

  3  Ethics.

  4         b.  Effective January 1, 1999, participation in the

  5  Senior Management Service Class shall be compulsory for up to

  6  175 nonelective positions within the Senate which are selected

  7  by the President of the Senate and for which participation is

  8  not compulsory pursuant to sub-subparagraph a. and up to 275

  9  nonelective positions within the House of Representatives

10  which are selected by the Speaker of the House of

11  Representatives and for which participation is not compulsory

12  pursuant to sub-subparagraph a.

13         2.  Participation in this class shall be compulsory,

14  except as provided in subparagraph 3., for any legislative

15  employee who holds a position designated for coverage in the

16  Senior Management Service Class, and such participation shall

17  continue until the employee terminates employment in a covered

18  position.

19         3.  In lieu of participation in the Senior Management

20  Service Class, in the discretion of the Joint Legislative

21  Management Committee, such members may participate in the

22  Senior Management Service Optional Annuity Program as

23  established in subsection (6).

24         Section 2.  This act shall take effect January 1, 1999.

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27                          SENATE SUMMARY

28    Authorizes the President of the Senate to designate
      additional employees of the Senate, and the Speaker of
29    the House of Representatives to designate additional
      employees of the House of Representatives, for whom
30    membership in the Senior Management Service Class of the
      Florida Retirement System will become compulsory.
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