HB 0371 2003
1	CHAMBER ACTION
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6	The Committee on Local Government & Veterans' Affairs recommends
7	the following:
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9	Committee Substitute
10	Remove the entire bill and insert:
11	A bill to be entitled
12	An act relating to the City of Jacksonville; amending
13	chapter 92-341, Laws of Florida, as amended; clarifying
14	exemptions provided in the Charter of the City of
15	Jacksonville to the civil service status of designated
16	positions; providing an effective date.
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18	WHEREAS, the City of Jacksonville has determined that it is
19	in its best interest to consolidate its housing programs within
20	a new housing commission, and
21	WHEREAS, the city has determined that it is in its best
22	interest to provide for appointed employees for the new
23	agencies, while ensuring that present employees retain the right
24	to revert to their civil service positions, and
25	WHEREAS, the city and the property appraiser wish to codify
26	the status of appointed employees in that office and to confirm
27	reversion rights for said employees, NOW, THEREFORE,
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29	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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31	Section 1. Subsections (gg) and (hh) are added to section
32	17.06 of the Charter of the City of Jacksonville, as created by
33	chapter 92-341, Laws of Florida, as amended, to read:
34	ARTICLE 17. CIVIL SERVICE
35	Section 17.06 Applicability of civil service system to
36	employees of consolidated government.--The civil service
37	provisions of this charter shall be applicable to all employees
38	of the consolidated government except:
39	(gg) All persons employed by the Housing and Community
40	Development Commission (HCDC) and the Housing and Community
41	Development Finance Commission (HCDFC), except those employees
42	of organizations who were transferred into the HCDC or the HCDFC
43	on July 1, 2003, as a result of the creation of the HCDC and the
44	HCDFC pursuant to the City Ordinance Code and who elected to
45	retain civil service status.
46	(hh) All persons employed in the Office of the Property
47	Appraiser, except those employees who elected to retain civil
48	service status prior to January 1, 2000.
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50	Any person in the classified civil service who is appointed to a
51	position exempted from the civil service system by this section
52	shall be entitled to return to the same or a comparable civil
53	service classification, with the same rights and status as held
54	immediately prior to such appointment. Compensation for an
55	employee returning to a civil service classification under this
56	provision will be based upon the rate that he or she would have
57	been receiving had the appointment not been made. This paragraph
58	shall not apply to employees exempted from civil service
59	provisions by subsections (a), (c), (e), (f), (i), or (q).
60	Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.
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