| 1 | Representative Jones offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Between lines 395 and 396, insert: |
| 5 | Section 9. Subsection (4) is added to section 185.03, |
| 6 | Florida Statutes, to read: |
| 7 | 185.03 Municipal police officers' retirement trust funds; |
| 8 | creation; applicability of provisions; participation by public |
| 9 | safety officers.-For any municipality, chapter plan, local law |
| 10 | municipality, or local law plan under this chapter: |
| 11 | (4)(a) The provisions of this chapter shall apply only to |
| 12 | municipalities organized and established pursuant to the laws of |
| 13 | the state, and said provisions shall not apply to the |
| 14 | unincorporated areas of any county or counties nor shall the |
| 15 | provisions hereof apply to any governmental entity whose police |
| 16 | officers are eligible to participate in the Florida Retirement |
| 17 | System. |
| 18 | (b) With respect to the distribution of premium taxes, a |
| 19 | single consolidated government consisting of a former county and |
| 20 | one or more municipalities, consolidated pursuant to s. 3 or s. |
| 21 | 6(e), Art. VIII of the State Constitution, is also eligible to |
| 22 | participate under this chapter. The consolidated government |
| 23 | shall notify the division when it has entered into an interlocal |
| 24 | agreement to provide police services to a municipality within |
| 25 | its boundaries. The municipality may enact an ordinance levying |
| 26 | the tax as provided in s. 185.08. Upon being provided copies of |
| 27 | the interlocal agreement and the municipal ordinance levying the |
| 28 | tax, the division shall distribute any premium taxes reported |
| 29 | for the municipality to the consolidated government as long as |
| 30 | the interlocal agreement is in effect. |
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| 33 | T I T L E A M E N D M E N T |
| 34 | Remove line 29 and insert: |
| 35 | calculating retirement benefits; amending s. 185.03, F.S.; |
| 36 | specifying applicability of ch. 185, F.S., to certain |
| 37 | consolidated governments; providing that a municipality that has |
| 38 | entered into an interlocal agreement to provide police |
| 39 | protection services to another incorporated municipality, in its |
| 40 | entirety, is eligible to receive the premium taxes reported for |
| 41 | the other municipality under certain circumstances; authorizing |
| 42 | the municipality receiving the police protection services to |
| 43 | enact an ordinance levying a tax as provided by law; amending s. |
| 44 | 185.05, |