HB 0859 2003
1	CHAMBER ACTION
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6	The Committee on Transportation recommends the following:
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8	Committee Substitute
9	Remove the entire bill and insert:
10	A bill to be entitled
11	An act relating to law enforcement officers; amending s.
12	322.21, F.S.; revising delinquent fee for described late
13	renewal or extension of certain driver's licenses;
14	providing for deposit of funds into the State Law
15	Enforcement Officer Recruitment and Retention Trust Fund
16	for certain purposes; creating a law enforcement
17	accountability pay scale; providing for a pay increase for
18	certain career service law enforcement officers; providing
19	methods of payment; providing for appropriations;
20	providing an effective date.
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22	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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24	Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (1) and subsection
25	(5) of section 322.21, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
26	322.21 License fees; procedure for handling and collecting
27	fees.--
28	(1) Except as otherwise provided herein, the fee for:
29	(c) The renewal or extension of a Class D or Class E
30	driver's license or of a license restricted to motorcycle use
31	only is $15, except that a delinquent fee of $10$1shall be
32	added for a renewal or extension made not more than 60 days12
33	monthsafter the license expiration date. The fee provided in
34	this paragraph shall include the fee for driver's education
35	provided by s. 1003.48.
36	(5)(a) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection,
37	the department shall collect and transmit all fees received by
38	it under this section to the Treasurer to be placed in the
39	General Revenue Fund of the state, and sufficient funds for the
40	necessary expenses of the department shall be included in the
41	appropriations act. The fees shall be used for the maintenance
42	and operation of the department.
43	(b) Nine dollars of the moneys received from each $10
44	delinquent fee imposed pursuant to paragraph (1)(c) shall be
45	deposited into the State Law Enforcement Officer Recruitment and
46	Retention Trust Fund and credited to the salaries and benefit
47	category of the state agencies with eligible sworn agency law
48	enforcement officers on a pro rata, per capita basis pursuant to
49	the ratified collective bargaining agreement for the state law
50	enforcement bargaining unit then in effect. If no such ratified
51	bargaining agreement is then in effect, the amounts shall be
52	distributed on the basis of the ratified bargaining agreement
53	last in effect. The amounts collected and distributed pursuant
54	to this paragraph are supplemental to other funds provided for
55	salary increases.
56	Section 2. Law enforcement accountability pay scale.--
57	(1) Beginning in the year 2004, on October 1 of each year,
58	each career service state law enforcement officer, as defined in
59	s. 943.10(1), Florida Statutes, shall receive, in addition to
60	salary increases provided in the General Appropriations Act, a
61	2.5-percent increase to his or her September 30 base rate of
62	pay, provided the law enforcement officer has, in the previous
63	12 months:
64	(a) Completed a minimum of 40 hours of job-related
65	continuing education, including inservice education, or a
66	minimum of 3 credit hours of college coursework;
67	(b) Completed a minimum of 16 hours in an agency-
68	recognized mentoring program; and
69	(c) Received a satisfactory performance evaluation.
70	(2) State law enforcement officers who do not complete
71	each of the three requirements enumerated in subsection (1)
72	remain eligible to receive any salary increases provided in the
73	General Appropriations Act.
74	(3) If an otherwise eligible state law enforcement
75	officer's base rate of pay is at the maximum of the pay range,
76	the law enforcement officer shall instead receive a lump-sum
77	payment equal to 2.5 percent of the maximum of that range.
78	(4) Funds sufficient to carry out the purposes of this
79	section are hereby appropriated from the General Revenue Fund.
80	Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.
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