Title: City of Tampa, Hillsborough County

Summary: Authorizes city to enter into supplemental contract with certain firefighters & police officers to comply with specified law; authorizes board to adopt rules under certain circumstances.

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An act relating to the City of Tampa, Hillsborough County; authorizing the City of Tampa to enter into a supplemental contract with certain firefighters and police officers to comply with ch. 2015-39, Laws of Florida, by providing for the establishment of an unfunded defined contribution plan component; authorizing the board of trustees to adopt rules implementing the defined contribution plan component in the event it becomes funded; confirming in part the City of Tampa Firefighters and Police Officers Pension Contract; providing for severability; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. The City of Tampa is authorized and empowered to enter into a supplemental contract with each and every firefighter or police officer who is an active member of the City Pension Fund for Firefighters and Police Officers in the City of Tampa on or after the date this act becomes a law or who hereafter enters into a pension contract with the City. Section 2. Section of the City of Tampa Firefighters and Police Officers Pension Contract as prescribed by Section 28-17 of the City of Tampa Code [Ordinance No. 746-A, enacted ENROLLED HB 2017 Legislature September 30, 1969], as amended by Section-19 of the City of Tampa Code [Ordinance No. 6038-A, enacted September 17, 1974], pursuant to chapter-613, Laws of Florida, as further amended by Ordinance No.-314, enacted December 21, 1989,and approved, ratified, validated, and confirmed by chapter-391, Laws of Florida, and as further amended by chapter-231, Laws of Florida, chapter-463, Laws of Florida, chapter-515, Laws of Florida, chapter 2000-485, Laws of Florida, Ordinance No. 2001-133, enacted July 3, 2001, chapter 2001-288, Laws of Florida, chapter 2002-369, Laws of Florida, Ordinance No. 2003 22, enacted January 23, 2003, chapter 2004-427, Laws of Florida, chapter 2007-304, Laws of Florida, chapter 2011-240, Laws of Florida, and chapter 2012-235, Laws of Florida, is created to read: Section 29. Defined Contribution Plan Component. Pursuant to the requirements of sections 175.351(6) and 185.35(6), Florida Statutes, a defined contribution plan component is established for this special act. The defined contribution plan component is not currently funded. If such plan component is funded, the Board of Trustees may adopt rules regarding the operation of the defined contribution plan component of this special act. Section 3. The changes to the pension contract in this act for firefighters and police officers who are active members of the City Pension Fund for Firefighters and Police Officers in ENROLLED HB 2017 Legislature the City of Tampa on or after the date this act becomes a law shall be made a vailable in a supplemental pension contract, and an individual shall not be permitted to select some of said changes and reject other of said changes. Any firefighter or police officer who is entitled to benefits under the City Pension Fund for Firefighter sand Police Officers in the City of Tampa who is actively employed as a firefighter or police officer in the City of Tampa on or after the date this act becomes a law shall have the opportunity to sign such supplemental pension contract before October 1, 2017. However, any person who becomes a member of the City Pension Fund for Firefighters and Police Officers in the City of Tampa on or after the date this act becomes a law shall be required, as a condition of membership into such pension fund, to sign a pension contract which includes the provisions of this act, and shall be required to make contributions if required as a result of such benefits. Section 4. The City of Tampa Firefighters and Police Officers Pension Contract as prescribed by Section-17 of the Tampa City Code [Ordinance No. 4746-A, enacted September 30, 1969], as amended by Section-19 of the City of Tampa Code [Ordinance No. 6038-A, enacted September 17, 1974], pursuant to chapter-613, Laws of Florida, as further amended by Ordi nance No. 89-314, enacted December 21, 1989, and approved, ratified, validated, and confirmed by chapter-391, Laws of Florida, and ENROLLED HB 2017 Legislature as further amended by chapter-231, Laws of Florida, chapter 94-463, Laws of Florida, chapter-515, Laws of Florida, chapter 2000-485, Laws of Florida, Ordinance No. 2001-133, enacted July 3, 2001, chapter 2001-288, Laws of Florida, chapter 2002-369, Laws of Florida, Ordinance No. 2003-22, enacted January 23, 2003, chapter 2004-427, Laws of Florida, chapter 2007-304, Laws of Florida, chapter 2011-240, Laws of Florida, and chapter 2012-235, Laws of Florida, is in all other respects approved, ratified, validated, and confirmed. Section 5. If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is he ld to be invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this act are severable. Section 6. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.