Florida Senate - 2020                                     SB 952
       
       
        
       By Senator Perry
       
       
       
       
       
       8-01019B-20                                            2020952__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the Senior Management Service
    3         Class; amending s. 121.055, F.S.; providing that
    4         participation in the Senior Management Service Class
    5         of the Florida Retirement System is compulsory for
    6         each appointed criminal conflict and civil regional
    7         counsel and specified staff of the regional counsel
    8         beginning on a specified date; authorizing certain
    9         additional positions that may be included in the
   10         class; authorizing members of the class to purchase
   11         and upgrade certain retirement credit; providing an
   12         effective date.
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   14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   16         Section 1. Paragraph (m) is added to subsection (1) of
   17  section 121.055, Florida Statutes, to read:
   18         121.055 Senior Management Service Class.—There is hereby
   19  established a separate class of membership within the Florida
   20  Retirement System to be known as the “Senior Management Service
   21  Class,” which shall become effective February 1, 1987.
   22         (1)
   23         (m)1. Effective July 1, 2020, participation in the Senior
   24  Management Service Class is compulsory for each appointed
   25  criminal conflict and civil regional counsel and each district’s
   26  assistant regional counsel chiefs, administrative directors, and
   27  chief investigators. Additional full-time positions may be
   28  designated by the criminal conflict and civil regional counsel
   29  for inclusion in the Senior Management Service Class, not to
   30  exceed 5 percent of the regularly established positions within
   31  the office of criminal conflict and civil regional counsel.
   32         2. A Senior Management Service Class member under this
   33  paragraph may purchase additional retirement credit in the class
   34  for creditable service within the purview of the Senior
   35  Management Service Class retroactive to February 1, 1987, and
   36  may upgrade retirement credit for such service in accordance
   37  with paragraph (j). However, this service credit may not be
   38  purchased by the employer on behalf of the member.
   39         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.