(a) Each agency is authorized to continue to pay, at the levels in
effect on June 30, 2007, on-call fees and shift differentials as
necessary to perform normal operations of the agency.
(b) Each agency that had a training program in existence on June 30,
2006, which included granting pay additives to participating employees,
is authorized to continue such training program for the 2026-2027 fiscal
year. Such additives shall be granted under the provisions of the law
administrative rules, and collective bargaining agreements.
(c) Each agency is authorized to continue to grant temporary special
duties pay additives to employees assigned additional duties as a result
of another employee being absent from work pursuant to the Family
Medical Leave Act or authorized military leave. The notification process
described in section 110.2035(7)(d), Florida Statutes, does not apply to
additives authorized in this paragraph.
(d) Each agency is authorized to grant merit pay increases based on the
employee's exemplary performance as evidenced by a performance
evaluation conducted pursuant to chapter 60L-35, Florida Administrative
Code, or a similar performance evaluation applicable to other pay plans.
The Chief Justice may exempt judicial branch employees from the
performance evaluation requirements of this paragraph.
(e) Contingent upon the availability of funds and at the agency head's
discretion, each agency is authorized to continue to grant temporary
special duties pay additives, of up to 15 percent of the employee's base
rate of pay, to each employee temporarily deployed to a facility or area
closed due to emergency conditions from another area of the state that
is not closed.
(f) The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission may continue to grant
temporary special duty pay additives to law enforcement officers who
perform additional duties as K-9 handlers, regional recruiters/media
coordinators, and breath test operators/inspectors, and may grant
temporary special duty pay additives to law enforcement officers who
perform additional duties as offshore patrol vessel crew members,
special operations group members, and long-term covert investigations.
(g) The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is authorized to grant
critical market pay additives to employees residing in and assigned to
Lee County, Collier County, Monroe County, Broward County, or Miami-Dade
County, at the levels that the employing agency granted salary increases
for similar purposes prior to July 1, 2006. These pay additives shall be
granted only during the time in which the employee resides in, and is
assigned duties within, these counties. In no instance may the employee
receive an adjustment to the employee's base rate of pay and a critical
market pay additive based on the employee residing in and being assigned
in the specified counties.
(h) The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is authorized to grant
an annual housing allowance of $5,000 to sworn law enforcement officers
residing in and assigned to Broward County, Collier County, Franklin
County, Glades County, Hardee County, Hendry County, Lee County, Manatee
County, Miami-Dade County, Monroe County, Okeechobee County, Orange
County, Osceola County, Palm, Beach County, Polk County or Taylor
County. This allowance shall be granted only during the time in which
the employee resides in, and is assigned duties within, these counties.
(i) The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission may provide a duty
officer shift differential pay additive of 10 percent and a midnight
shift differential of 15 percent to duty officers who are assigned to
work those respective shifts.
(j) The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is authorized to
grant critical market pay additives to sworn law enforcement officers
residing in and assigned to:
1. Lee County, Collier County, or Monroe County, at the levels that the
employing agency granted salary increases for similar purposes prior to
July 1, 2006;
2. Hillsborough, Orange, Pinellas, Duval, Marion, and Escambia counties
at $5,000, or, in lieu thereof, an equivalent salary adjustment that was
made during Fiscal Year 2015-2016;
3. Alachua, Baker, Brevard, Clay, Charlotte, Flagler, Indian River,
Manatee, Martin, Nassau, Osceola, Pasco, Sarasota, Santa Rosa, Seminole,
St. Johns, St. Lucie, and Volusia counties at $5,000.