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