Florida House Bill 7179 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on April 17 2014 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2014-05-02 - Died, reference deferred
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Revises legislative declaration regarding firefighter pension plans; provides new definitions; revises provisions related to firefighters' pension trust fund; revises provisions relating to municipalities & special fire control districts that have their own pension plans; revises criteria governing benefits to be funded from premium tax revenues and uses thereof; requires plan sponsors to have defined contribution plan in place by certain date; authorizes municipality to make changes to local law plan under certain circumstances; revises legislative declaration police officer pension plans; creates new definitions; revises provisions regarding police officers' retirement trust fund; deletes provision basing additional benefits in police officer pension plan upon state funding; revises calculation of monthly retirement income for police officer; revises provisions regarding certain police officer pension plans; revises provisions relating to municipalities that have their own pension plans for police officers & want to participate in distribution of excise tax fund; revises criteria governing use of revenues from premium tax; revises provisions regarding excess benefits under certain circumstances; requires plan sponsors to have defined contribution plan in place by certain date; revises authorities that municipality has to implement certain changes to local law plan; provides declaration of important state interest.

Local Government Pension Reform

House State Affairs Committee

Rep. Matthew Caldwell [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-05-02	House	Died, reference deferred
2014-04-17	House	Introduced
2014-04-17	House	Filed

S0246 (Similar To) 2014-05-02 - Died in Messages
H0509 (Similar To) 2014-05-02 - Died in Government Operations Subcommittee
H7181 (Similar To) 2014-05-02 - Died on Calendar, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 5005 (Ch. 2014-54)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
175	021		Amended Code	See Bill Text
175	032		Amended Code	See Bill Text
175	071		Amended Code	See Bill Text
175	091		Amended Code	See Bill Text
175	162		Amended Code	See Bill Text
175	351		Amended Code	See Bill Text
185	01		Amended Code	See Bill Text
185	02		Amended Code	See Bill Text
185	06		Amended Code	See Bill Text
185	07		Amended Code	See Bill Text
185	16		Amended Code	See Bill Text
185	35		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2014/7179
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2014/7179/BillText/Filed/PDF