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FL Stat § 238.03 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XVI - Teachers' Retirement System; Higher Educational Facilities Bonds|Chapter 238 - Teachers' Retirement System|238.03 - Administration.

238.03 Administration.—(1) The general administration and the responsibility for the proper operation of the retirement system and for making effective the provisions of this chapter are vested in the Department of Management Services.(2) The department shall keep in convenient form such data as shall be necessary for actuarial valuation of the various funds created by this chapter and for checking the experience of the retirement system.(3) The Department of Legal Affairs shall be the legal adviser of the department.(4) The department shall employ such agents, servants and employees as in its judgment may be necessary to carry out the terms and provisions of this chapter and shall provide for their compensation. Among the employees of the department shall be an actuary who shall be the technical adviser of the department on matters regarding the operation of the funds created by the provisions of this chapter and who shall perform such other duties as are required in connection therewith.(5) In the year 1943 and at least once in each 5-year period thereafter, the actuary shall make an actuarial investigation of the mortality, service and salary experience of the members and beneficiaries as defined in this chapter, and shall make a valuation of the various funds created by the chapter, and having regard to such investigation and valuation, the department shall adopt such mortality and service tables as shall be deemed necessary, and shall certify the rates of contribution payable under the provisions of this chapter.(6) The actuary shall make an annual valuation of the assets and liabilities of the funds of the retirement system on the basis of the tables adopted by the department in accordance with the requirements of this section, and shall prepare an annual statement of the amounts to be contributed by the state in accordance with s. 238.09.(7) The department shall publish annually the valuation, as certified by the actuary, of the assets and liabilities of the various funds created by this chapter, a statement as to the receipts and disbursements of the funds, and a statement as to the accumulated cash and securities of the funds.(8) The department shall keep a record of all of its proceedings and such record shall be open to inspection by the public.History.—s. 3, ch. 19014, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 892(158); s. 1, ch. 28109, 1953; s. 2, ch. 29942, 1955; s. 19, ch. 63-400; ss. 11, 31, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 69-184; s. 64, ch. 71-377; s. 1, ch. 73-326; s. 95, ch. 92-279; s. 55, ch. 92-326; s. 37, ch. 94-249; s. 75, ch. 99-255; s. 29, ch. 2004-335; s. 18, ch. 2013-18.
FL Stat § 238.071 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XVI - Teachers' Retirement System; Higher Educational Facilities Bonds|Chapter 238 - Teachers' Retirement System|238.071 - Social Security Benefits; Determination of Retirement Allowance.

238.071 Social security benefits; determination of retirement allowance.—Any member of the Teachers’ Retirement System who has heretofore or who hereafter retires and has his or her retirement allowance redetermined under the provisions of s. 238.07(16), shall not after July 1, 1969, have the amount of the redetermined retirement allowance reduced because of social security benefits received by the member or his or her spouse.History.—s. 1, ch. 69-47; s. 11, ch. 95-148; s. 36, ch. 2010-5.
FL Stat § 238.072 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XVI - Teachers' Retirement System; Higher Educational Facilities Bonds|Chapter 238 - Teachers' Retirement System|238.072 - Special Service Provisions for Extension Personnel.

238.072 Special service provisions for extension personnel.—All state and county cooperative extension personnel holding appointments by the United States Department of Agriculture for extension work in agriculture and home economics in this state who are joint representatives of the University of Florida and the United States Department of Agriculture, as provided in s. 121.051(7), who are members of the Teachers’ Retirement System, chapter 238, and who are prohibited from transferring to and participating in the Florida Retirement System, chapter 121, may retire with full benefits upon completion of 30 years of creditable service and shall be considered to have attained normal retirement age under this chapter, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. In order to comply with the provisions of s. 14, Art. X of the State Constitution, any liability accruing to the Florida Retirement System Trust Fund as a result of the provisions of this section shall be paid on an annual basis from the General Revenue Fund.History.—s. 1, ch. 79-169.
FL Stat § 238.10 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XVI - Teachers' Retirement System; Higher Educational Facilities Bonds|Chapter 238 - Teachers' Retirement System|238.10 - Management of Funds.

238.10 Management of funds.—The Department of Management Services, annually, shall allow regular interest on the amount for the preceding year to the credit of each of the funds of the retirement system, and to the credit of the individual account therein, if any, with the exception of the expense fund, from the interest and dividends earned from investments.History.—s. 10, ch. 19014, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 892(165); s. 4, ch. 20749, 1941; s. 15, ch. 21989, 1943; s. 1, ch. 26963, 1951; s. 9, ch. 29942, 1955; s. 6, ch. 61-458; ss. 31, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 73-326; s. 80, ch. 99-255.
FL Stat § 238.12 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XVI - Teachers' Retirement System; Higher Educational Facilities Bonds|Chapter 238 - Teachers' Retirement System|238.12 - Duties of Employers.

238.12 Duties of employers.—(1) Each employer shall keep such records and, from time to time, shall furnish such information as the Department of Management Services may require in the discharge of its duties. Upon the employment of any teacher to whom this chapter may apply, the teacher shall be informed by his or her employer of his or her duties and obligations in connection with the retirement system as a condition of his or her employment. Every teacher accepting employment shall be deemed to consent and agree to any deductions from his or her compensation required in this chapter and to all other provisions of this chapter.(2) During September of each year, or at such other time as the department shall approve, each employer shall certify to the department the names of all teachers to whom this chapter applies.(3) Each employer shall, on the first day of each calendar month, or at such less frequent intervals as the department may approve, notify the department of the employment of new teachers, removals, withdrawals and changes in salary of members that have occurred during the preceding month, or the period covered since the last notification.History.—s. 12, ch. 19014, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 892(167); ss. 31, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 73-326; s. 15, ch. 95-148; s. 82, ch. 99-255.
FL Stat § 238.13 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XVI - Teachers' Retirement System; Higher Educational Facilities Bonds|Chapter 238 - Teachers' Retirement System|238.13 - Limitation on Membership.

238.13 Limitation on membership.—(1) No other provision of law in any other statute which provides wholly or partly at the expense of the state for pensions or for retirement benefits for teachers of the said state, their surviving spouses, or other dependents, shall apply to members or beneficiaries of the retirement system established by this chapter, their surviving spouses or other dependents. No person who shall become a teacher, as defined herein, after July 1, 1939, shall be eligible to a pension under any statute heretofore enacted.(2) No person who is fully covered by a compulsory civil service retirement plan shall be a member of the retirement system under this chapter; provided, however, that any person who is presently a member of the retirement system and is also fully covered by a compulsory civil service retirement plan may continue to be a member of the retirement system or at his or her option may withdraw from such retirement system and thereupon be entitled to receive all of his or her accumulation in the Annuity Savings Trust Fund together with the interest thereon.History.—s. 13, ch. 19014, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 892(168); s. 7, ch. 61-458; s. 16, ch. 95-148.
FL Stat § 238.14 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XVI - Teachers' Retirement System; Higher Educational Facilities Bonds|Chapter 238 - Teachers' Retirement System|238.14 - Protection Against Fraud.

238.14 Protection against fraud.—Any person who shall knowingly make any false statement, or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of this retirement system in any attempt to defraud such system as a result of such act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. Should any change or error in records result in any member or beneficiary receiving from the retirement system more or less than he or she would have been entitled to receive had the records been correct, then on discovery of any such error the department shall correct such error, and, as far as practicable, shall adjust the payments in such a manner that the actuarial equivalent of the benefit, to which such member or beneficiary was correctly entitled, shall be paid.History.—s. 14, ch. 19014, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 892(169), 8115(6); ss. 31, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 142, ch. 71-136; s. 17, ch. 95-148; s. 83, ch. 99-255.
FL Stat § 238.15 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XVI - Teachers' Retirement System; Higher Educational Facilities Bonds|Chapter 238 - Teachers' Retirement System|238.15 - Exemption of Funds From Taxation, Execution, and Assignment.

238.15 Exemption of funds from taxation, execution, and assignment.—The pensions, annuities or any other benefits accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of this chapter and the accumulated contributions and cash securities in the funds created under this chapter are exempted from any state, county or municipal tax of the state, and shall not be subject to execution or attachment or to any legal process whatsoever, and shall be unassignable, except:(1) That any teacher who has retired shall have the right and power to authorize in writing the Department of Management Services to deduct from his or her monthly retirement allowance money for the payment of the premiums on group insurance for hospital, medical and surgical benefits, under a plan or plans for such benefits approved in writing by the Chief Financial Officer, and upon receipt of such request the department shall make the monthly payments as directed; and(2) As may be otherwise specifically provided for in this chapter.History.—s. 15, ch. 19014, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 892(170); s. 11, ch. 29942, 1955; ss. 13, 31, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 73-326; s. 18, ch. 95-148; s. 84, ch. 99-255; s. 262, ch. 2003-261.
FL Stat § 238.16 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XVI - Teachers' Retirement System; Higher Educational Facilities Bonds|Chapter 238 - Teachers' Retirement System|238.16 - Penalties.

238.16 Penalties.—Any person subject to the terms and provisions of this chapter, including the individual members of all boards, who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter or any valid rule or regulation promulgated under authority of the chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083, and each day of such violation shall constitute a separate offense.History.—s. 16, ch. 19014, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 8115(7); s. 143, ch. 71-136.
FL Stat § 238.17 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XVI - Teachers' Retirement System; Higher Educational Facilities Bonds|Chapter 238 - Teachers' Retirement System|238.17 - Employees of Nonprofit Professional Association or Corporation of Teachers Functioning on a Statewide Basis; Intent.

238.17 Employees of nonprofit professional association or corporation of teachers functioning on a statewide basis; intent.—It is the intent of this section to grant to employees of a nonprofit professional association or corporation of teachers who are or become members of the Teachers’ Retirement System all the rights, privileges, and benefits therefrom as are or may be granted to all other members of the Teachers’ Retirement System; however, for other than creditable service as a teacher as defined in s. 238.01(3) rendered to a state, county, municipality, or other taxing district by any such employee, the state shall not make any contributions on account of such service.History.—s. 7, ch. 23864, 1947; s. 6, ch. 87-19.
FL Stat § 238.172 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XVI - Teachers' Retirement System; Higher Educational Facilities Bonds|Chapter 238 - Teachers' Retirement System|238.172 - Proof Required.

238.172 Proof required.—For any person to obtain the allowance as set forth in s. 238.171 the person shall make such proof of the facts and conditions entitling him or her to the allowance as shall reasonably be required by the state board, and when such proof has been submitted to the satisfaction of the state board, the Chief Financial Officer shall pay to such person the monthly allowance provided for herein.History.—s. 551, ch. 19355, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 892(155); s. 1, ch. 20914, 1941; s. 91, ch. 72-221; s. 20, ch. 95-148; s. 263, ch. 2003-261.Note.—Former s. 231.51.
FL Stat § 238.173 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XVI - Teachers' Retirement System; Higher Educational Facilities Bonds|Chapter 238 - Teachers' Retirement System|238.173 - Monthly Allowance to Widows or Widowers of Pensioners.

238.173 Monthly allowance to widows or widowers of pensioners.—When any teacher, drawing pension under s. 238.171, shall die leaving surviving a widow or widower to whom such pensioner has been married for a continuous period of at least 10 years immediately prior to his or her death, and from whom no dissolution of marriage is obtained, such widow or widower, upon proof of marriage to and continuation of marriage for the minimum period with, and death of, said pensioner, shall be granted a pension payable from the date of the death of said pensioner, and at the same time and rate as other pensions paid under s. 238.171. The Chief Financial Officer is authorized and directed to draw his or her warrants in payment of such pensions so long as such widow or widower shall remain unmarried and continue to be a resident of the state; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to allow such pension to be paid to any widow or widower where such widow or widower of a deceased pensioner under this section receives a like pension in his or her own right as a retired school teacher.History.—s. 1, ch. 20914, 1941; s. 91, ch. 72-221; s. 1, ch. 73-300; s. 21, ch. 95-148; s. 264, ch. 2003-261.Note.—Former s. 231.52.
FL Stat § 238.174 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XVI - Teachers' Retirement System; Higher Educational Facilities Bonds|Chapter 238 - Teachers' Retirement System|238.174 - Appropriation for Monthly Allowance to Incapacitated Teachers.

238.174 Appropriation for monthly allowance to incapacitated teachers.—There is appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sufficient sum of money to meet the requirements of s. 238.171.History.—s. 3, ch. 14782, 1931; s. 91, ch. 72-221.Note.—Former ss. 242.06, 231.53.
FL Stat § 238.175 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XVI - Teachers' Retirement System; Higher Educational Facilities Bonds|Chapter 238 - Teachers' Retirement System|238.175 - Members With Prior Service in Federally Operated State Schools; Eligibility for Special Credits.

238.175 Members with prior service in federally operated state schools; eligibility for special credits.—(1) Any member of the Teachers’ Retirement System or the Florida Retirement System established respectively by this chapter and chapter 121 who taught in a public school in Florida which was taken over and operated by the United States Government pursuant to Pub. L. No. 81-874 or other Federal Law, may claim and receive credit in the retirement system in which he or she is participating for the time he or she taught in such schools, while they were operated by the United States Government under the following conditions, provided credit for such teaching time has not been granted in any other state or federal retirement system.(a) If the member was a member of the Teachers’ Retirement System prior to the time he or she began teaching in the public schools operated by the United States Government, he or she may claim and receive credit for such teaching time in the retirement system in which he or she is participating as prior service upon the payment of the amounts required to obtain credit for such prior service pursuant to the laws and rules governing the administration of his or her retirement system.(b) If the member was not a member of the Teachers’ Retirement System prior to the time he or she began teaching in the public schools operated by the United States Government, he or she may claim and receive retirement credit for such teaching time in the following manner:1. A member of the Teachers’ Retirement System may receive retirement credit for the time he or she taught in such federally operated schools as prior teaching service outside the state pursuant to the provisions of s. 238.06(4).2. A member of the Florida Retirement System may receive retirement credit for the time he or she taught in such federally operated schools as past service pursuant to the provisions of, and following the payment of the amounts specified in, s. 121.081(1), notwithstanding any contrary provisions in said s. 121.021(18), or other provisions of law.(2) The administrator of the retirement system shall make such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out and implement the provisions of this section.History.—s. 1, ch. 72-251; s. 22, ch. 95-148.
FL Stat § 238.183 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XVI - Teachers' Retirement System; Higher Educational Facilities Bonds|Chapter 238 - Teachers' Retirement System|238.183 - Developmental Research School and Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind Instructional Personnel; Reemployment After Retirement.

238.183 Developmental research school and Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind instructional personnel; reemployment after retirement.—(1) Notwithstanding any other law, instructional personnel, as defined in s. 1012.01(2), employed by a developmental research school or the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind are eligible for reemployment after retirement in the same manner as classroom teachers who are employed by the district school boards, as described in ss. 121.091(9)(b) and 238.181(2)(c).(2) Instructional personnel, as defined in s. 1012.01(2), employed by a developmental research school and authorized by the school’s director, or if the school has no director, by the school’s principal, are eligible for the Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP) beyond 60 months in the same manner as the instructional personnel who are employed by the district school boards and authorized by the district school superintendent, as described in s. 121.091(13).History.—s. 3, ch. 2004-355; s. 20, ch. 2009-209.
FL Stat § 238.184 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XVI - Teachers' Retirement System; Higher Educational Facilities Bonds|Chapter 238 - Teachers' Retirement System|238.184 - Charter School Instructional Personnel; Reemployment After Retirement.

238.184 Charter school instructional personnel; reemployment after retirement.—Effective July 1, 2004, the director or principal of a charter school participating in the Florida Retirement System may reemploy a retired member as a substitute or hourly teacher on a noncontractual basis, or reemploy such retired member as instructional personnel, as defined in s. 1012.01(2)(a), on an annual contractual basis, after he or she has been retired for 1 calendar month in accordance with s. 121.021(39).History.—s. 4, ch. 2004-355.
FL Stat § 238.31 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XVI - Teachers' Retirement System; Higher Educational Facilities Bonds|Chapter 238 - Teachers' Retirement System|238.31 - Provision for Modification of Plan E.

238.31 Provision for modification of plan E.—Notwithstanding any provision contained herein to the contrary the provisions relating to retirement under s. 238.07(2)(e) shall be subject to amendment or modification by subsequent legislation and all other provisions of this chapter relating to the administration of plan E, or to the duties, rights, privileges, requirements and benefits of the members of plan E shall be subject to amendment, modification, deletion, or substitution by act of the 1965 Legislature of this state and all such legislation shall be applicable retroactively to July 1, 1963, with respect to all those persons who become members of plan E on or after July 1, 1963; provided, however, that such legislation shall not provide for a normal retirement age of members to exceed the age of 65 years, nor shall such legislation be applicable to any benefits which become payable to, or with respect to, such members prior to July 1, 1965.History.—s. 11, ch. 63-554.
FL Stat § 238.32 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XVI - Teachers' Retirement System; Higher Educational Facilities Bonds|Chapter 238 - Teachers' Retirement System|238.32 - Service Credit in Disputed Cases.

238.32 Service credit in disputed cases.—The Department of Management Services may in its discretion allow or deny a member service credit in disputed or doubtful cases for employment in Florida and out-of-state schools in order to serve the best interests of the state and the member, subject to the membership dates set forth in s. 238.06(4).History.—s. 4, ch. 65-552; ss. 31, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 73-326; s. 87, ch. 99-255.
FL Stat § 238.325 (2021)
2021 Florida Statutes|Title XVI - Teachers' Retirement System; Higher Educational Facilities Bonds|Chapter 238 - Teachers' Retirement System|238.325 - Statements of Purpose and Intent and Other Provisions Required for Qualification Under the Internal Revenue Code of the United States.

238.325 Statements of purpose and intent and other provisions required for qualification under the Internal Revenue Code of the United States.—Any other provisions in this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding, it is specifically provided that:(1) The purpose of this chapter is to provide pension benefits for the exclusive benefit of the member employees or their beneficiaries.(2) No part of the principal or income of the trust fund created hereunder shall be used or diverted for purposes other than for the exclusive benefit of the member employees or their beneficiaries and for the payment of administrative cost.(3) Forfeitures, if any, shall not be applied to increase the benefits any member employee would otherwise receive under this chapter.(4) Upon termination or partial termination, upon discontinuance of contributions, abandonment, or merger, or upon consolidation or amendment of this chapter, the rights of all affected employees to benefits accrued as of the date of any of the foregoing events, or the amounts credited to the account of any member employee, shall be and continue thereafter to be nonforfeitable except as otherwise provided by law.(5) No benefit hereunder shall exceed the maximum amount allowable by law for qualified pension plans under existing or hereafter-enacted provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States.(6) The compensation limits established by s. 401(a)(17) of the Internal Revenue Code prior to the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, and adjusted for changes in the cost of living since 1989, in the manner provided by s. 401(a)(17) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1991, were part of the Teachers’ Retirement System of Florida on July 1, 1993.(7) Except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions of this section are declaratory of the legislative intent upon the original enactment of this chapter and are hereby deemed to have been in effect from such date.History.—s. 1, ch. 78-108; s. 15, ch. 96-368.