HB 1576-FN – AS INTRODUCED

2010 SESSION

10-2504

10/09

HOUSE BILL 1576-FN

AN ACT relative to certain retirement system beneficiaries receiving a retirement allowance while in active service.

SPONSORS: Rep. DeJoie, Merr 11; Rep. P. McMahon, Merr 3

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

ANALYSIS

This bill requires the option for certain employees in the retirement system to join the retirement system be made at the time of initial hiring, election, or appointment. This bill also repeals a provision allowing certain retirement system members to receive an allowance while in active service.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

10-2504

10/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten

AN ACT relative to certain retirement system beneficiaries receiving a retirement allowance while in active service.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Retirement System; Membership; Optional. Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 100-A:3, I(a) to read as follows:

I.(a) Any person who becomes an employee, teacher, permanent policeman, or permanent fireman after the date of establishment, working in a position for an employer under this chapter as determined by common law standards, shall become a member of the retirement system as a condition of employment; except that membership shall be optional at the time of initial hiring, election, or appointment in the case of elected officials, officials appointed for fixed terms, unclassified state employees, or those employees of the general court who are eligible for membership in the retirement system. Elected officials and officials appointed for fixed terms shall, however, be eligible for membership in the retirement system only under the following conditions:

2 Certain Persons in Active Service Receiving Retirement Allowance. Any retirement system beneficiary who retired under the provisions of former RSA 100-A:3, I(c) prior to its repeal by 2002, 137:6 and who is both (a) currently receiving a retirement allowance, and (b) serving in the same membership- optional position from which the beneficiary retired, shall choose, within 60 days after the effective date of this act, either to be restored to service as required by RSA 100-A:7 or to terminate from active service in order to continue receiving his or her retirement allowance.

3 Repeal. 2002, 137:7, relative to the application of the repeal of former RSA 100-A:3, I(c), is repealed.

4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

LBAO

10-2504

12/07/09

HB 1576-FN - FISCAL NOTE

AN ACT relative to certain retirement system beneficiaries receiving a retirement allowance while in active service.

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