Senate Bill sb1506c1

    Florida Senate - 2001                           CS for SB 1506

    By the Committee on Governmental Oversight and Productivity;
    and Senator Garcia




    302-1643-01

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Florida Retirement

  3         System; amending s. 409.9205, F.S.;

  4         transferring positions in the Medicaid Fraud

  5         Control Unit of the Department of Legal Affairs

  6         to Career Service System; eliminating a

  7         provision that makes investigators of the

  8         Medicaid Fraud Control Unit ineligible for

  9         membership in the Special Risk Class of the

10         system; providing an effective date.

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

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14         Section 1.  Section 409.9205, Florida Statutes, is

15  amended to read:

16         409.9205  Medicaid Fraud Control Unit; law enforcement

17  officers.--

18         (1)  Except as provided in s. 110.205, all positions in

19  the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the Department of Legal

20  Affairs are transferred to the Career Service System.

21         (2)  All investigators employed by the Medicaid Fraud

22  Control Unit who have been certified under s. 943.1395 are law

23  enforcement officers of the state. Such investigators have the

24  authority to conduct criminal investigations, bear arms, make

25  arrests, and apply for, serve, and execute search warrants,

26  arrest warrants, capias, and other process throughout the

27  state pertaining to Medicaid fraud as described in this

28  chapter. The Attorney General shall provide reasonable notice

29  of criminal investigations conducted by the Medicaid Fraud

30  Control Unit to, and coordinate those investigations with, the

31  sheriffs of the respective counties. Investigators employed by

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    Florida Senate - 2001                           CS for SB 1506
    302-1643-01




  1  the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit are not eligible for

  2  membership in the Special Risk Class of the Florida Retirement

  3  System under s. 121.0515.

  4         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.

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  6          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  7                         Senate Bill 1506

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  9  The Committee additionally transfers the remaining members of
    the Medicaid Fraud Control unit back to the Career Service
10  System, except for those retained in the Selected Exempt
    Service system.
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