Page 470

ENROLLED HB 5001, ENGROSSED 1 2024 LEGISLATURE ______________________________________________________________________________ (2) SPECIAL PAY ISSUES (a) Agency for Health Care Administration Effective July 1, 2024, funds are provided in Specific Appropriation 2120 in the amount of $2,807,213 from the General Revenue Fund and $3,890,873 from trust funds to the Agency for Health Care Administration to provide critical salary market adjustments to eligible employees to address recruitment and retention in the Division of Medicaid, Bureau of Financial Services, Bureau of Purchasing and Contract Administration, and the Division of Health Quality Assurance. The agency shall submit a plan for such adjustments pursuant to section 216.77(2), Florida Statutes. (b) Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services Effective July 1, 2024, from the funds in Specific Appropriation 2120, $3,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund is provided to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to grant market-based special pay adjustments to address employee recruitment and retention. (c) Department of Military Affairs Effective July 1, 2024, funds are provided in Specific Appropriation 2120 for the Department of Military Affairs to grant military personnel of the Florida National Guard on full-time military duty a pay raise to comply with section 250.10(1), Florida Statutes. (d) Florida Department of Law Enforcement Effective July 1, 2024, $1,500,000 in recurring funds from the General Revenue Fund is provided in Specific Appropriation 2120 to grant a special pay adjustment of 5.0 percent, after the pay adjustment is made pursuant to paragraph (1)(b), for eligible employees in one of the following position classifications: Special Agent Trainee (8580); Special Agent (8581); and Protective Services Special Agent II (8592). (3) BENEFITS: HEALTH, LIFE, AND DISABILITY INSURANCE (a) State Life Insurance and State Disability Insurance Funds are provided in each agency’s budget to continue paying the state share of the current State Life Insurance Program and the State Disability Insurance Program premiums. (b) State Health Insurance Administrative Health Insurance Assessment Funds are provided in each agency’s budget to pay an administrative health insurance assessment equal to the employer’s cost of single employee health care coverage for each vacant position eligible for coverage through the Division of State Group Insurance. (c) State Health Insurance Plans and Benefits 1. For the period July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025, the Department of Management Services shall continue within the State Group Insurance Program State Group Health Insurance Standard Plans, State Group Health Insurance High Deductible Plans, State Group Health Maintenance Organization Standard Plans, and State Group Health Maintenance Organization High Deductible Plans. 2. For the period July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025, the benefits provided under each of the plans shall be those benefits as provided in the current State Employees’ PPO Plan Group Health Insurance Plan Booklet and Benefit Document, and current Health Maintenance Organization contracts and benefit documents, including any revisions to such health benefits approved by the Legislature. 3. Beginning January 1, 2025, for the 2025 plan year, each plan shall continue the benefits for occupational therapy authorized for the 2024 plan year. 4. Effective July 1, 2024, the state health insurance plans, as defined in subsection (2)(c), shall limit plan participant cost sharing (deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments) for covered in-network medical services, the amount of which shall not exceed the annual cost sharing limitations for individual coverage or for family coverage as provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to 469