(1) The collection of contributions shall be as follows:
(a) Each employer shall cause to be deducted from each and every payment of salary of a member, for each and every payroll period, the contribution payable by such member as provided in this chapter. Commencing July 1, 1967, each employer shall also budget and set aside an amount equal to such deductions, plus, commencing January 1, 1993, an additional 3.99 percent of each payment of salary of a member, which shall be the employer contribution, except with respect to any nonprofit professional association or corporation of teachers for which the employer contribution shall be at least that amount specified in s. 238.09(3)(a); provided that such amount shall be set aside only if the state makes available to the employer, except for any nonprofit professional association or corporation, the additional funds necessary for such employer contributions.
(b) Each employer shall transmit monthly to the Department of Management Services a warrant for the total amount of such deductions. Each employer shall also transmit monthly to the department a warrant for such employer contribution set aside as provided for in paragraph (a) of this subsection. The department, after making records of all such warrants, shall transmit them to the Department of Financial Services for delivery to the Chief Financial Officer, who shall collect them.
(c) The state contribution shall be equal to the excess of the contributions specified under s. 238.09, over the amounts the state makes available for employer contributions under paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection.
(2) The collection of the state contribution shall be made as follows:
(a) The amounts required to be paid by the state into the Teachers’ Retirement System in this chapter shall be provided therefor in the General Appropriations Act. However, in the event a sufficient amount is not included in the General Appropriations Act to meet the full amount needed to pay the retirement compensation provided for in this chapter, the additional amount needed for such retirement compensation is hereby appropriated from the General Revenue Fund as approved by the Department of Management Services.
(b) The Department of Management Services shall certify one-fourth of the amount so ascertained for each year to the Chief Financial Officer on or before the last day of July, October, January, and April of each year. The Chief Financial Officer shall, on or before the first day of August, November, February, and May of each year, immediately transfer to the several funds of the retirement system the amounts due.
(3) All collection of contributions of a nonprofit professional association or corporation of teachers as referred to in s. 238.01(3) and (5) shall be made by such association or corporation in the following manner:
(a) On April 1 of each year, the Department of Management Services shall certify to any such nonprofit professional association or corporation of teachers the amounts which will become due and payable during the ensuing fiscal year to each of the funds of the retirement system to which such contributions are payable as set forth in this law.
(b) The Department of Management Services shall certify one-fourth of the amount so ascertained for each year to the nonprofit professional association or corporation of teachers on or before the last day of July, October, January, and April of each year. The nonprofit professional association or corporation of teachers shall, on or before the first day of August, November, February, and May of each year, draw its check payable to the department for the respective amounts due the several funds of the retirement system. Upon receipt of the check, the department shall immediately transfer to the several funds of the retirement system the amounts due, provided, however, that the amounts due the several funds of the retirement system from any such association or corporation for creditable service accruing to any such member before July 1, 1947, shall be paid prior to the retirement of any such member.
History.—s. 11, ch. 19014, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 892(166); s. 6, ch. 23864, 1947; s. 10, ch. 29942, 1955; s. 9, ch. 63-554; ss. 12, 31, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 73-305; s. 1, ch. 73-326; s. 142, ch. 81-259; s. 8, ch. 85-61; s. 5, ch. 87-19; s. 4, ch. 92-139; s. 97, ch. 92-279; s. 55, ch. 92-326; s. 14, ch. 95-148; s. 81, ch. 99-255; s. 261, ch. 2003-261.