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    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 members of
    9         the class to purchase and upgrade certain retirement
   10         credit; providing an effective date.
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   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Paragraph (m) is added to subsection (1) of
   15  section 121.055, Florida Statutes, to read:
   16         121.055 Senior Management Service Class.—There is hereby
   17  established a separate class of membership within the Florida
   18  Retirement System to be known as the “Senior Management Service
   19  Class,” which shall become effective February 1, 1987.
   20         (1)
   21         (m)1. Effective July 1, 2020, participation in the Senior
   22  Management Service Class is compulsory for each appointed
   23  criminal conflict and civil regional counsel and each district’s
   24  assistant regional counsel chiefs, administrative directors, and
   25  chief investigators.
   26         2. A Senior Management Service Class member under this
   27  paragraph may purchase additional retirement credit in the class
   28  for creditable service within the purview of the Senior
   29  Management Service Class retroactive to October 1, 2007, and may
   30  upgrade retirement credit for such service in accordance with
   31  paragraph (j). However, this service credit may not be purchased
   32  by the employer on behalf of the member.
   33         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.