BILL · 2011–12 SESSION

HB 1262: Annuities & retirement plans

Addressing public employees' annuities and retirement plans.

Summary

Limits the employees to which state institutions of higher education may offer the Higher Education Retirement Plan (HERP), instead of the Public Employees’ Retirement System(PERS) Plans 2 or 3, to faculty and senior academic administrator employees.
Eliminates the HERP Supplemental Benefit to employees that enter the plan after the effective date of the act.
Replaces the defunct Public Pension Commission with the Select Committee on Pension Policy on the committees responsible for overseeing the HERPs.
Creates a presumption that retirees that return to work for their previous employers fewer than three months after his or her accrual date did not separate from service.
Applies the PERS post-retirement employment rules to positions covered by the HERPs.

From the House Bill Analysis 2011 (HB 1262), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to public employees' annuities and retirement plans;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

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