Senate Bill sb2112

    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 2112

    By Senator Smith





    14-924-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to public employers; amending

  3         s. 447.203, F.S.; providing successor public

  4         employers to the Florida Board of Education;

  5         amending s. 447.309, F.S.; providing specific

  6         obligations for successor public employers;

  7         providing an effective date.

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

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11         Section 1.  Subsection (2) of section 447.203, Florida

12  Statutes, is amended to read:

13         447.203  Definitions.--As used in this part:

14         (2)  "Public employer" or "employer" means the state or

15  any county, municipality, or special district or any

16  subdivision or agency thereof which the commission determines

17  has sufficient legal distinctiveness properly to carry out the

18  functions of a public employer.  With respect to all public

19  employees determined by the commission as properly belonging

20  to a statewide bargaining unit composed of State Career

21  Service System employees or Selected Professional Service

22  employees, the Governor shall be deemed to be the public

23  employer; and the university board of trustees shall be deemed

24  to be the successor public employer to the Florida Board of

25  Education with respect to all public employees of the

26  respective state university. The board of trustees of a

27  community college shall be deemed to be the public employer

28  with respect to all employees of the community college. The

29  district school board shall be deemed to be the public

30  employer with respect to all employees of the school district.

31  The Board of Trustees of the Florida School for the Deaf and

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 2112
    14-924-03




 1  the Blind shall be deemed to be the public employer with

 2  respect to the academic and academic administrative personnel

 3  of the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind.  The

 4  Governor shall be deemed to be the public employer with

 5  respect to all employees in the Correctional Education Program

 6  of the Department of Corrections established pursuant to s.

 7  944.801.

 8         Section 2.  Subsection (6) is added to section 447.309,

 9  Florida Statutes, to read:

10         447.309  Collective bargaining; approval or

11  rejection.--

12         (6)  If there is material change in the identity or

13  structure of the public employer, the successor public

14  employer shall maintain the existing wages, hours, and terms

15  and conditions of employment, including those set forth in a

16  collective bargaining agreement, which are in effect at the

17  time of the change for all public employees represented by a

18  certified bargaining agent. The successor public employer

19  shall continue to bargain, upon proper request, with the

20  certified bargaining agent over any changes in such terms and

21  conditions until the commission determines that the new entity

22  is not a successor employer.

23         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

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26                          SENATE SUMMARY

27    Provides that for certain collective bargaining, the
      respective university board of trustees is the successor
28    public employer to the Florida Board of Education.
      Provides specific obligations for successor public
29    employers.

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