Florida Senate - 2022                                     SB 338
       
       
        
       By Senator Baxley
       
       
       
       
       
       12-00269-22                                            2022338__
    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 district’s assistant regional counsel
    7         supervisors, beginning on a specified date; providing
    8         an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Paragraph (m) of subsection (1) of section
   13  121.055, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   14         121.055 Senior Management Service Class.—There is hereby
   15  established a separate class of membership within the Florida
   16  Retirement System to be known as the “Senior Management Service
   17  Class,” which shall become effective February 1, 1987.
   18         (1)
   19         (m)1. Effective July 1, 2020, participation in the Senior
   20  Management Service Class is compulsory for each appointed
   21  criminal conflict and civil regional counsel and each district’s
   22  assistant regional counsel chiefs, administrative directors, and
   23  chief investigators.
   24         2. Effective July 1, 2022, participation in the Senior
   25  Management Service Class is compulsory for each district’s
   26  assistant regional counsel supervisors.
   27         3. A Senior Management Service Class member under this
   28  paragraph may purchase additional retirement credit in the class
   29  for creditable service within the purview of the Senior
   30  Management Service Class retroactive to October 1, 2007, and may
   31  upgrade retirement credit for such service in accordance with
   32  paragraph (j). However, this service credit may not be purchased
   33  by the employer on behalf of the member.
   34         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.