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ENROLLED HB 5001, ENGROSSED 1 2024 LEGISLATURE ______________________________________________________________________________ (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 2024-2025 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 Lee County, Collier County, Monroe County, Broward County, or Miami-Dade 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. 474