Florida Senate - 2016                                    SB 1350
       
       
        
       By Senator Abruzzo
       
       25-01390-16                                           20161350__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to law enforcement and correctional
    3         officers; amending s. 943.085, F.S.; providing
    4         legislative intent concerning salary parity for law
    5         enforcement and correctional facility officers;
    6         providing an effective date.
    7          
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
    9  
   10         Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 943.085, Florida
   11  Statutes, is amended to read:
   12         943.085 Legislative intent with respect to upgrading the
   13  quality of law enforcement officers and correctional officers.—
   14         (2) It is the further intent of the Legislature to
   15  establish statewide a minimum salaries foundation program for
   16  law enforcement officers, including correctional facility
   17  officers, to achieve uniformity, parity, and equal compensation
   18  for all such officers who have equal rank by providing a and
   19  correctional probation officers which will provide a statewide
   20  minimum salary for all such officers; to provide state monetary
   21  supplement in order to increase effectuate an upgrading of
   22  compensation for all law enforcement officers, including
   23  correctional facility officers, to ensure that Department of Law
   24  Enforcement, Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida
   25  Highway Patrol, and Department of Corrections correctional
   26  facility officers are compensated equally pursuant to their rank
   27  and to ensure that officers of one agency are not compensated
   28  more than officers of another agency if such officers have equal
   29  rank by name and correctional probation officers; and to upgrade
   30  the educational and training standards of such officers.
   31         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.