SENATE AMENDMENT

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11  Senator Silver moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 1, line 18,

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17         Section 1.  Effective October 1, 1999, paragraph (h) of

18  subsection (1) of section 121.055, Florida Statutes, 1998

19  Supplement, is amended to read:

20         121.055  Senior Management Service Class.--There is

21  hereby established a separate class of membership within the

22  Florida Retirement System to be known as the "Senior

23  Management Service Class," which shall become effective

24  February 1, 1987.

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

26  January 1, 1994, participation in the Senior Management

27  Service Class shall be compulsory for the State Courts

28  Administrator and the Deputy State Courts Administrators, the

29  Clerk of the Supreme Court, the Marshal of the Supreme Court,

30  the Executive Director of the Justice Administrative

31  Commission, the Capital Collateral Representative, the clerks

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 1  of the district courts of appeals, the marshals of the

 2  district courts of appeals, and the trial court administrator

 3  in each judicial circuit. Effective January 1, 1994,

 4  additional positions in the offices of the state attorney and

 5  public defender in each judicial circuit may be designated for

 6  inclusion in the Senior Management Service Class of the

 7  Florida Retirement System, provided that:

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

 9  designated by the state attorney or public defender, as

10  appropriate.  Notice of intent to designate positions for

11  inclusion in the class shall be published once a week for 2

12  consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation

13  published in the county or counties affected, as provided in

14  chapter 50.

15         b.  One nonelective full-time position may be

16  designated for each state attorney and public defender

17  reporting to the Division of Retirement; for agencies with 200

18  or more regularly established positions under the state

19  attorney or public defender, additional nonelective full-time

20  positions may be designated, not to exceed 0.5 percent of the

21  regularly established positions within the agency.

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

23  managerial or policymaking position filled by an employee who

24  serves at the pleasure of the state attorney or public

25  defender without civil service protection, and who:

26         (I)  Heads an organizational unit; or

27         (II)  Has responsibility to effect or recommend

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

29  her areas of responsibility.

30         2.  Participation in this class shall be compulsory,

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

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 1  employee who holds a position designated for coverage in the

 2  Senior Management Service Class and such participation shall

 3  continue until the employee terminates employment in a covered

 4  position. Effective January 1, 2000, participation in this

 5  class shall be compulsory for assistant state attorneys,

 6  assistant statewide prosecutors, and assistant public

 7  defenders.

 8         3.  In lieu of participation in the Senior Management

 9  Service Class, such members may participate in the Senior

10  Management Service Optional Annuity Program as established in

11  subsection (6).

12         Section 2.  The state courts are authorized to pay

13  Selected Exempt Service benefits to all judicial assistants

14  within the state courts system. This section takes effect

15  October 1, 1999.

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17  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)

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21  And the title is amended as follows:

22         On page 1, lines 2 and 3, delete those lines

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24  and insert:

25         An act relating to employees within the

26         judicial branch; amending s. 121.055, F.S.;

27         adding assistant state attorneys, assistant

28         statewide prosecutors, and assistant public

29         defenders to the Senior Management Service

30         Class of the Florida Retirement System;

31         authorizing the state courts to pay Selected

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