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Florida House of Representatives - 2002 HB 185
By Representative Seiler
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to the Florida Retirement
3 System; amending s. 121.055, F.S.; including
4 general masters and child support hearing
5 officers in the Senior Management Service Class
6 of the system; providing an effective date.
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8 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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10 Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subsection (1) of section
11 121.055, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
12 121.055 Senior Management Service Class.--There is
13 hereby established a separate class of membership within the
14 Florida Retirement System to be known as the "Senior
15 Management Service Class," which shall become effective
16 February 1, 1987.
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18 (h)1. Except as provided in subparagraph 3., effective
19 January 1, 1994, participation in the Senior Management
20 Service Class shall be compulsory for the State Courts
21 Administrator and the Deputy State Courts Administrators, the
22 Clerk of the Supreme Court, the Marshal of the Supreme Court,
23 the Executive Director of the Justice Administrative
24 Commission, the Capital Collateral Regional Counsels, the
25 clerks of the district courts of appeals, the marshals of the
26 district courts of appeals, and the trial court administrator
27 in each judicial circuit. Effective January 1, 1994,
28 additional positions in the offices of the state attorney and
29 public defender in each judicial circuit may be designated for
30 inclusion in the Senior Management Service Class of the
31 Florida Retirement System, provided that:
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1 a. Positions to be included in the class shall be
2 designated by the state attorney or public defender, as
3 appropriate. Notice of intent to designate positions for
4 inclusion in the class shall be published once a week for 2
5 consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation
6 published in the county or counties affected, as provided in
7 chapter 50.
8 b. One nonelective full-time position may be
9 designated for each state attorney and public defender
10 reporting to the Department of Management Services; for
11 agencies with 200 or more regularly established positions
12 under the state attorney or public defender, additional
13 nonelective full-time positions may be designated, not to
14 exceed 0.5 percent of the regularly established positions
15 within the agency.
16 c. Each position added to the class must be a
17 managerial or policymaking position filled by an employee who
18 serves at the pleasure of the state attorney or public
19 defender without civil service protection, and who:
20 (I) Heads an organizational unit; or
21 (II) Has responsibility to effect or recommend
22 personnel, budget, expenditure, or policy decisions in his or
23 her areas of responsibility.
24 2. Participation in this class shall be compulsory,
25 except as provided in subparagraph 3., for any judicial
26 employee who holds a position designated for coverage in the
27 Senior Management Service Class, and such participation shall
28 continue until the employee terminates employment in a covered
29 position. Effective January 1, 2001, participation in this
30 class is compulsory for assistant state attorneys, assistant
31 statewide prosecutors, assistant public defenders, and
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1 assistant capital collateral regional counsels. Effective
2 January 1, 2002, participation in this class is compulsory for
3 assistant attorneys general. Effective July 1, 2002,
4 participation in this class shall be compulsory for general
5 masters and child support hearing officers who are
6 participants in the Florida Retirement System.
7 3. In lieu of participation in the Senior Management
8 Service Class, such members, excluding assistant state
9 attorneys, assistant public defenders, assistant statewide
10 prosecutors, assistant attorneys general, and assistant
11 capital collateral regional counsels, may participate in the
12 Senior Management Service Optional Annuity Program as
13 established in subsection (6).
14 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2002.
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17 HOUSE SUMMARY
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Includes general masters and child support hearing
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the Florida Retirement System.
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