Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 2084
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/07/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability
       (Ring) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 3108 - 3125
    4  and insert:
    5         112.920 110.1225 Furloughs.—If When a deficit is projected
    6  or certified to occur by the Revenue Estimating Conference
    7  pursuant to s. 216.221 216.136(3), in any state agency fund that
    8  supports salary and benefit appropriations for state employees,
    9  the affected state agency or the judicial branch, upon approval
   10  of the Governor or the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, as
   11  applicable, Administration Commission may propose a furlough
   12  plan and related budget amendments for consideration by the
   13  Legislative Budget Commission. The commission, after consulting
   14  with the Revenue Estimating Conference regarding the projected
   15  deficit, may to the Legislature, which must approve or
   16  disapprove such plan and budget amendments in total. This
   17  section is subject to the notice and review procedures set forth
   18  in s. 216.177. The plan must identify all affected positions and
   19  ensure that all affected employees within a budget entity are
   20  subject to the same reduction of hours for the same number of
   21  pay periods with a commensurate reduction in pay.
   22         (1) If authorized by the Legislature as a cost-savings
   23  measure to address anticipated short-term shortfalls to funds
   24  that support salary and benefit appropriations for state
   25  employees for a specified fiscal year, a state agency or the
   26  judicial branch may also impose furloughs as directed by the
   27  Legislature in the General Appropriations Act.
   28         (2) For the purposes of this section, the term “furlough”
   29  means a temporary reduction in the regular hours of employment
   30  administered as leave without pay.