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                                       HB 839, First Engrossed/ntc



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the City of Jacksonville and

  3         the St. Johns River Power Park; amending

  4         chapter 80-513, Laws of Florida, as amended by

  5         chapter 90-439, Laws of Florida, to permit a

  6         limited number of former employees of JEA who

  7         go to work for the St. Johns River Power Park

  8         to have the option of staying in the 1937

  9         Employees' Pension Fund of the City of

10         Jacksonville or joining the St. Johns River

11         Power Park retirement plan; permitting a

12         limited number of former employees of the St.

13         Johns River Power Park who go to work for JEA

14         to have the option of staying in the St. Johns

15         River Power Park retirement plan or joining the

16         1937 Employees' Pension Fund of the City of

17         Jacksonville; providing an effective date.

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

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21         Section 1.  Paragraph (1) of section 12 of chapter

22  80-513, Laws of Florida, as amended by chapter 90-439, Laws of

23  Florida, is amended to read:

24         Section 12.  In order to enable JEA the authority to

25  implement and accomplish any joint electric power project with

26  respect to which JEA the authority has entered into an

27  agreement under section 2(A) of this act, JEA the authority

28  shall have the following powers, in addition to powers

29  otherwise conferred:

30         (1)(a)  Employees.--To employ personnel whose duties

31  shall relate exclusively to any such joint electric power


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  1  project.  Such employees shall not be employees of the City of

  2  Jacksonville, or members of the Civil Service System of the

  3  City of Jacksonville, nor shall they participate in the

  4  pension fund of the city notwithstanding any provision of the

  5  Charter or Ordinance Code of the City of Jacksonville to the

  6  contrary except as provided in this section subsection.  JEA

  7  The authority may fix and pay to such employees such

  8  compensation and provide to them such other employee rights

  9  and benefits as it shall determine.  In addition, JEA the

10  authority may allocate to the joint electric power project the

11  services of any of its other employees, whether appointed or

12  within the Civil Service System of the city, from time to time

13  on a temporary basis in order to provide necessary support or

14  assistance to the joint electric power project.  Such

15  temporary assignment of any civil service employee to a

16  project shall not exceed 60 consecutive days in duration.  In

17  the event that an employee of JEA the authority who is a

18  member of the classified civil service system of the city and

19  is participating in the 1937 Employees' Pension Fund of the

20  city should become a full-time employee of any such joint

21  electric power project after the effective date of this act,

22  then such employee shall no longer be a member of the city

23  civil service system and shall relinquish all rights and

24  privileges inuring to employees within said system and shall

25  thereafter be entitled only to those benefits as shall be

26  afforded other full-time employees of the joint electric power

27  project, except as provided by this section.

28         (b)  Pension participation.--An However, any employee

29  who shall leave JEA employment the city civil service system

30  in order to become an employee of such a project without break

31  in service prior to January 1, 1990, may, at his or her


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  1  option, continue as a member of the 1937 Employees' Pension

  2  Fund and upon continuation shall make the required employee

  3  contribution thereto and the matching contribution which had

  4  theretofor been paid into this fund by JEA the authority on

  5  behalf of such employee shall thereafter be assumed and paid

  6  by the project.  No person who is receiving time service

  7  pension payments from any pension fund of the city may become

  8  an employee of a joint electric power project and continue to

  9  receive payments from the fund during such period of

10  employment.  However, should any such person whose pension

11  benefits have been so terminated cease his or her employment

12  with the joint electric power project, he or she shall

13  immediately become qualified for and be entitled to receive

14  those benefits he or she had previously been entitled to.  Any

15  person receiving a time service pension under the 1937

16  Employees' Pension Fund of the city who becomes an employee of

17  St. Johns River Power Park may elect to join either the St.

18  Johns River Power Park retirement plan or to rejoin the 1937

19  Employees' Pension Fund but the option to rejoin the 1937

20  Employees' Pension Fund shall terminate December 31, 1990, and

21  thereafter all persons who become employed by St. Johns River

22  Power Park may participate only in the St. Johns River Power

23  Park retirement plan.  Any employee who may elect to rejoin

24  the 1937 Employees' Pension Fund shall not be eligible to

25  participate in any St. Johns River Power Park retirement plan

26  including social security.  The St. Johns River Power Park

27  shall make the required employer contribution into the fund

28  for such employees in the same manner and amount as JEA the

29  City of Jacksonville is required to do for JEA city employees

30  who are members of the fund. Any active employee of the St.

31  Johns River Power Park participating in the St. Johns River


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  1  Power Park retirement plan who, without break in service,

  2  becomes an employee of JEA may, at his or her option, continue

  3  as a member of the St. Johns River Power Park retirement plan

  4  including social security. JEA shall make the required

  5  employer contribution into the fund for such employees in the

  6  same manner and amount as the St. Johns River Power Park is

  7  required to do for St. Johns River Power Park employees who

  8  are members of the fund. This option to remain as a member of

  9  the St. Johns River Power Park retirement plan after becoming

10  an employee of JEA or to remain as a member of the 1937

11  Employees' Pension Fund of the City after becoming an employee

12  of the St. Johns River Power Park shall be available and

13  limited to the first 150 employees exercising either option.

14         Section 2.  This act is intended to provide prospective

15  rights and limitations which shall take effect upon this act

16  becoming a law.

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

18  law.

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