Senate Bill sb2174

    Florida Senate - 2007                                  SB 2174

    By Senator Bennett





    21-460-07

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Florida Retirement

  3         System; amending s. 121.0515, F.S.; prescribing

  4         conditions under which certain former law

  5         enforcement officer members of the Special Risk

  6         Class of the system who were retired for

  7         disability may receive credit for time spent on

  8         retirement for disability; providing

  9         retroactive applicability; providing an

10         effective date.

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

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14         Section 1.  Subsection (10) is added to section

15  121.0515, Florida Statutes, to read:

16         121.0515  Special risk membership.--

17         (10)  REEMPLOYMENT OF CERTAIN DISABLED

18  MEMBERS.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this

19  subsection applies with respect to any person who was formerly

20  a member of the Special Risk Class, who qualified for

21  membership in the class by reason of being employed or holding

22  office as a certified law enforcement officer, and who entered

23  the status of retirement due to disability because of a

24  disability caused by a wound or injury received in the line of

25  duty. If such a person's wound or injury becomes rehabilitated

26  to the extent that the person is capable of performing the

27  duties of a law enforcement officer and the person returns to

28  work as a law enforcement officer who is a member of the

29  Special Risk Class, that person may earn credit in the class

30  for the time he or she was retired due to disability as

31  follows: the person shall receive special risk credit for the

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    Florida Senate - 2007                                  SB 2174
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 1  time spent retired due to disability at the rate of 1 year of

 2  credit for such time for each 2 years of time spent in the

 3  Special Risk Class after reemployment. A person may not

 4  receive more credit under this subsection than the amount of

 5  time he or she was retired due to disability.

 6         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

 7  law and apply retroactively to January 1, 1990.

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10                          SENATE SUMMARY

11    Provides that a former law enforcement officer member of
      the Special Risk Class of the Florida Retirement System
12    who is retired for disability due to a wound or injury in
      the line of duty and who resumes employment as a law
13    enforcement officer after rehabilitation may earn credit
      for time spent on retirement for disability at the rate
14    of 1 year of credit for each 2 years worked. The
      provision operates retroactively to January 1, 1990.
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