Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1276
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/04/2020           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Albritton) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 50 - 96
    4  and insert:
    5  s. 20.052 and members shall be appointed by the commission.
    6  Initially, the commission shall appoint two members to a term of
    7  4 years, one member to a term of 3 years, one member to a term
    8  of 2 years, and one member to a term of 1 year. Thereafter,
    9  members shall be appointed for 4-year terms. The council shall
   10  consist of the following members:
   11         (a) One member of the commission.
   12         (b) One member recommended by the Florida Citrus Processors
   13  Association.
   14         (c) One member recommended by the statewide voluntary
   15  Florida citrus growers association with the highest membership.
   16         (d) Two at-large members, at the discretion of the
   17  commission.
   18         Section 2. Subsection (3) of section 601.10, Florida
   19  Statutes, is amended to read:
   20         601.10 Powers of the Department of Citrus.—The department
   21  shall have and shall exercise such general and specific powers
   22  as are delegated to it by this chapter and other statutes of the
   23  state, which powers shall include, but are not limited to, the
   24  following:
   25         (3)(a) To pay, or participate in the payment of, premiums
   26  for health, accident, and life insurance for its full-time
   27  employees, pursuant to such rules as the department may adopt,
   28  in addition to the regular salaries of such full-time employees.
   29         (a) The payment of such or similar benefits to its
   30  employees in foreign countries, including, but not limited to,
   31  social security, retirement, and other similar fringe benefit
   32  costs, may be in accordance with laws in effect in the country
   33  of employment, except that no benefits will be payable to
   34  employees not authorized for other state employees, as provided
   35  in the Career Service System.
   36         (b) The department may loan department employees to or
   37  share department employees with other state and federal
   38  agencies, state universities, or the Department of Agriculture
   39  and Consumer Services for marketing and promotion orders
   40  authorized under the authority of the Department of Agriculture
   41  and Consumer Services or its direct support organizations or for
   42  orders adopted under the authority of the United States
   43  Secretary of Agriculture. The department may enter into
   44  agreements with such entity or entities under such terms and
   45  conditions as will benefit the State of Florida, if the agency
   46  or entity with which the employee is loaned or shared reimburses
   47  the State of Florida for all pay and benefits of the employee,
   48  not including a service fee for administration. If the entity
   49  directly pays the loaned or shared employee his or her salary
   50  and benefits, as applicable, an agreement with the department is
   51  not necessary and the employee may work part time with the
   52  department under terms and conditions mutually agreed to by the
   53  department and the employee. All arrangements made pursuant to
   54  this paragraph are subject to prior approval by the department.
   55  Except as otherwise provided, loans and agreements must comply
   56  with s. 112.24
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   59  And the title is amended as follows:
   60         Delete line 17
   61  and insert:
   62         prior approval by the department; requiring the loans
   63         and agreements to comply with certain provisions
   64         governing the intergovernmental interchange of public
   65         employees; deleting provisions