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   SECTION   8.  EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS - FISCAL YEAR 2023-2024

   This  section  provides  instructions  for  implementing the Fiscal Year
   2023-2024  salary  and  benefits  adjustments  provided in this act. All
   allocations,  distributions,  and  uses of these funds are to be made in
   strict  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this act and chapter 216,
   Florida Statutes.

   Unless  otherwise specified in this section, references to an "eligible"
   employee  refer  to an employee who is, at a minimum, meeting his or her
   required performance standards, if applicable. If an ineligible employee
   achieves  performance  standards subsequent to the salary implementation
   date,  but  on  or  before  the end of the fiscal year, the employee may
   receive  the  increase;  however, the increase shall be effective on the
   date  the  employee becomes eligible but not retroactively. In addition,
   any  salary  increase  or  bonus  provided  under  this section shall be
   pro-rated based on the full-time equivalency of the employee's position.
   Employees  classified  as  other  personal  services  employees  are not
   eligible for an increase.

   It  is  the intent of the Legislature that the minimums and maximums for
   each  pay  grade  and  pay band be adjusted upward commensurate with the
   increases  provided  in  subsection (1)(b). In addition, the Legislature
   intends  that  all eligible employees receive the increases specified in
   this section, even if the implementation of such increases results in an
   employee's salary exceeding the adjusted pay grade maximum.

   (1) EMPLOYEE AND OFFICER COMPENSATION

   (a) Officer Compensation

   The  elected  officers, members of commissions, and designated employees
   shall  be  paid at the annual rate listed below for the 2023-2024 fiscal
   year; however, these salaries may be reduced on a voluntary basis.

                                                                  7/1/2023
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     Governor..................................................     141,400
     Lieutenant Governor.......................................     135,516
     Chief Financial Officer...................................     139,988
     Attorney General..........................................     139,988
     Agriculture, Commissioner of..............................     139,988
     Supreme Court Justice.....................................     239,442
     Judges - District Courts of Appeal........................     202,440
     Judges - Circuit Courts...................................     182,060
     Judges - County Courts....................................     172,015
     Judges of Compensation Claims.............................     172,000
     State Attorneys...........................................     218,939
     Public Defenders..........................................     202,440
     Commissioner - Public Service Commission..................     143,314
     Commissioner - Florida Gaming Control Commission..........     143,314
     Executive Director - Florida Gaming Control Commission....     143,314
     Public Employees Relations Commission Chair...............     106,142
     Public Employees Relations Commission Commissioners.......      50,322
     Commission on Offender Review Chair.......................     135,000
     Commission on Offender Review Commissioners...............     125,000
     Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsels.............     130,295

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   None  of  the  officers,  commission members or employees whose salaries
   have been fixed in this section shall receive any supplemental salary or
   benefits from any county or municipality.

   (b) Employee Compensation

   Effective  July  1, 2023, funding in the amount of $190,471,533 from the
   General  Revenue  Fund and $176,687,337 from trust funds are provided in
   Specific  Appropriation  2103  to  grant  a  5.0 percent competitive pay
   adjustment  to each eligible employee's June 30, 2023, base rate of pay.
   This competitive pay adjustment shall apply to each eligible employee in
   the  Career  Service, the Selected Exempt Service, the Senior Management
   Service,  the  lottery  pay  plan, the judicial branch pay plan, the pay
   plans  administered by the Justice Administration Commission, a military
   employee of the Florida National Guard on full-time military duty, and a
   non-career  service  employee of the Florida School for the Deaf and the
   Blind,  based  on  each  eligible  employee's  base  rate  of  pay. This
   competitive  pay  adjustment  shall be made before any other adjustments