Florida Senate - 2023                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 7026
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/28/2023           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Perry) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 126 - 136
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 5. Section 1012.976, Florida Statutes, is amended
    6  to read:
    7         1012.976 Remuneration of state university employees;
    8  limitations.—
    9         (1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term:
   10         (a) “Appropriated state funds” means funds appropriated
   11  from the General Revenue Fund or funds appropriated from state
   12  trust funds.
   13         (b) “Cash-equivalent compensation” means any benefit that
   14  may be assigned an equivalent cash value.
   15         (b) “Public funds” means funds appropriated from the
   16  General Revenue Fund, funds appropriated from state trust funds,
   17  or tuition and fees.
   18         (c) “Remuneration” means salary, bonuses, and cash
   19  equivalent compensation paid to a state university employee by
   20  his or her employer for work performed, excluding health
   21  insurance benefits and retirement benefits.
   22         (2) LIMITATION ON COMPENSATION.—Notwithstanding any other
   23  law, resolution, or rule to the contrary, a state university
   24  employee may not receive more than $250,000 $200,000 in
   25  remuneration annually from public appropriated state funds. Only
   26  compensation, as such term is defined in s. 121.021(22),
   27  provided to a state university employee may be used in
   28  calculating benefits under chapter 121.
   29         (3) EXCEPTIONS.—This section does not prohibit any party
   30  from providing cash or cash-equivalent compensation from funds
   31  that are not public appropriated state funds to a state
   32  university employee in excess of the limit in subsection (2). If
   33  a party is unable or unwilling to fulfill an obligation to
   34  provide cash or cash-equivalent compensation to a state
   35  university employee as permitted under this subsection, public
   36  appropriated state funds may not be used to fulfill such
   37  obligation. This section does not apply to university teaching
   38  faculty in instructional programs classified as Computer
   39  Information Sciences and Support Services; Engineering;
   40  Engineering Technologies and Engineering-Related Fields; Florida
   41  Mental Health Institute; Health Professions and Related
   42  Programs; Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting, and
   43  Related Fields; Mathematics; Nursing; or Physical Sciences; or
   44  to medical school faculty or staff.
   45  
   46  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   47  And the title is amended as follows:
   48         Delete line 14
   49  and insert:
   50         respectively; amending s. 1012.976, F.S.; revising
   51         definitions; defining the term “public funds”;
   52         revising a