HB 1187

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to the Florida Retirement System; amending
3	s. 121.0515, F.S.; prescribing conditions under which
4	certain former law enforcement officer members of the
5	Special Risk Class of the system who were retired for
6	disability may receive credit for time spent on retirement
7	for disability; providing retroactive applicability;
8	providing an effective date.
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10	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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12	Section 1.  Subsection (10) is added to section 121.0515,
13	Florida Statutes, to read:
14	121.0515  Special risk membership.--
15	(10)  REEMPLOYMENT OF CERTAIN DISABLED
16	MEMBERS.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this
17	subsection applies with respect to any person who was formerly a
18	member of the Special Risk Class, who qualified for membership
19	in the class by reason of being employed or holding office as a
20	certified law enforcement officer, and who entered the status of
21	retirement due to disability because of a disability caused by a
22	wound or injury received in the line of duty. If such a person's
23	wound or injury becomes rehabilitated to the extent that the
24	person is capable of performing the duties of a law enforcement
25	officer and the person returns to work as a law enforcement
26	officer who is a member of the Special Risk Class, that person
27	may earn credit in the class for the time he or she was retired
28	due to disability as follows: the person shall receive special
29	risk credit for the time spent retired due to disability at the
30	rate of 1 year of credit for such time for each 2 years of time
31	spent in the Special Risk Class after reemployment. A person may
32	not receive more credit under this subsection than the amount of
33	time he or she was retired due to disability.
34	Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a law
35	and apply retroactively to January 1, 1990.

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