Florida Senate - 2014                             CS for SB 1120
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and
       Domestic Security; and Senator Abruzzo
       
       
       
       
       583-03192-14                                          20141120c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to military affairs; creating s.
    3         115.135, F.S.; defining terms; prohibiting an
    4         employing agency from compelling an employee who is
    5         the spouse of a military servicemember to work
    6         extended work hours during active military service
    7         deployment of his or her spouse under specified
    8         circumstances; prohibiting the imposition of a
    9         sanction or penalty upon such employee for failure or
   10         refusal to work extended work hours during the period
   11         of his or her spouse’s active military service
   12         deployment under specified circumstances; requiring an
   13         employing agency to grant a request by such employee
   14         for unpaid leave for certain purposes during the
   15         active military service deployment under specified
   16         circumstances; providing a limitation on such unpaid
   17         leave; authorizing the Department of Management
   18         Services to adopt rules; providing an effective date.
   19          
   20  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   21  
   22         Section 1. Section 115.135, Florida Statutes, is created to
   23  read:
   24         115.135 Leave considerations; spouses of military
   25  servicemembers in active military service.—
   26         (1) For purposes of this section, the term:
   27         (a) “Employing agency” has the same meaning as in s.
   28  110.107(24).
   29         (b) “Active military service” does not include active duty
   30  training.
   31         (2) An employing agency may not:
   32         (a) Compel an employee who is the spouse of a servicemember
   33  of the United States Armed Forces to work hours in excess of the
   34  scheduled hours in the employee’s established work period during
   35  a period in which his or her spouse is deployed on active
   36  military service at a location other than the servicemember’s
   37  permanent duty station.
   38         (b) Impose a sanction or penalty upon an employee who is
   39  the spouse of a servicemember of the United States Armed Forces
   40  for failure or refusal to work hours in excess of the scheduled
   41  hours in the employee’s established work period during a period
   42  in which his or her spouse is deployed on active military
   43  service at a location other than the servicemember’s permanent
   44  duty station.
   45         (3) An employing agency shall grant a request by an
   46  employee who is the spouse of a servicemember of the United
   47  States Armed Forces deployed on active military service at a
   48  location other than the servicemember’s permanent duty station
   49  for unpaid leave not to exceed 4 working days per deployment for
   50  the purpose of attending to matters directly related to the
   51  implementation of deployment orders of his or her spouse. Leave
   52  taken pursuant to this subsection shall run concurrently with
   53  any qualifying exigency leave granted by the employing agency
   54  pursuant to the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, as
   55  amended, 29 U.S.C. ss. 2601 et seq.
   56         (4) The Department of Management Services may adopt rules
   57  to administer this section.
   58         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.