House Bill 0895

    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                 HB 895

        By Representatives Turnbull and Boyd






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to state employees; amending s.

  3         110.131, F.S.; requiring state agencies to

  4         provide health insurance benefits to certain

  5         other-personal-services employees; requiring

  6         the Office of Program Policy Analysis and

  7         Government Accountability to study

  8         other-personal-services employment and report

  9         its findings; 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.  Subsection (8) is added to section 110.131,

14  Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, to read:

15         110.131  Other-personal-services temporary

16  employment.--

17         (8)  If a person is employed by an agency in an

18  other-personal-services position for 12 or more months in any

19  18-month period, that employee must be furnished the same

20  health insurance benefits as regular employees of that agency.

21         Section 2.  The Office of Program Policy Analysis and

22  Government Accountability shall conduct a study of all

23  positions in state government which are filled by employees in

24  the "other-personal-services" classification. The office shall

25  determine which of these positions are needed for the

26  performance of a critical state service and which are truly

27  temporary in nature. The office shall submit a preliminary

28  report of its findings to the President of the Senate and the

29  Speaker of the House of Representatives by December 31, 1999,

30  and its final report by February 1, 2000.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                 HB 895

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  1         Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

  2  law.

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  5                          SENATE SUMMARY

  6    Requires state-agency employers to provide health
      insurance benefits to other-personal-services employees
  7    that they employ for 12 months or more in any 18-month
      period. Requires the Office of Program Policy Analysis
  8    and Government Accountability to study all OPS positions
      in state government, determining which perform critical
  9    state services and which are truly temporary, and report
      its findings to the Legislature.
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