KY HB108 | 2015 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 12 2015 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-11 - to Rules (H)
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #5) [MS Word]
Status: Engrossed on February 12 2015 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-11 - to Rules (H)
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #5) [MS Word]
Summary
Amend KRS 16.505 to clarify that lump-sum payments or nonrecurring payments shall, as determined by the board, be credited when earned or classified as a lump-sum bonus and averaged over the career of the member; make technical amendments; amend KRS 16.582 to remove language which prohibited an injury or disease resulting from military service from being considered a disabling condition for hazardous members of Kentucky Retirement Systems; amend KRS 61.510 and 78.510 to utilize partial fiscal years in determining the final compensation of a nonhazardous member who began participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System and the County Employees Retirement System on or after September 1, 2008, but prior to January 1, 2014, in situations where the member does not have 5 complete fiscal years of service; to clarify that lump-sum payments or nonrecurring payments shall, as determined by the board, be credited when earned or classified as a lump-sum bonus and averaged over the career of the member; provide that interim positions in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System and probationary positions in the County Employees Retirement System shall not be renewable by the employer for the same employee unless the employee has not been employed by the agency for 12 months; make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.542 to remove the requirement that the estate be designated as beneficiary of a member's account when they request a refund of contributions prior to retirement; provide that the member's estate shall be beneficiary of his or her account from Kentucky Retirement Systems if prior to retirement the member fails to designate a beneficiary or the beneficiary designation is found to be void; provide that a beneficiary shall not be changed on or after the first day of the month in which a retired employee begins receiving retirement benefits; provide that reemployed retirees who establish a second retirement account will have their estate named beneficiary if they fail to designate a beneficiary for their new account; amend KRS 61.545 to remove provisions allowing a member who is simultaneously eligible for participation in more than one retirement system administered by Kentucky Retirement Systems to select participation in only one system; make conforming amendments; amend KRS 61.552 to clarify and conform to federal law the payment options available to members for purchasing service credit; remove service purchase provisions no longer applicable to current members; require agencies who fail to report employees to the retirement system to pay penalties and interest on employer contributions from the date the contributions should have been reported to the system; make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.555 to provide that the service credit that is granted without cost to employees who are called to active duty military deployment shall be limited to those whose rights to such benefits have not been terminated under the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA); require employees participating in the hybrid cash balance plan on or after January 1, 2014, who are called to active duty military deployment to pay their employee contributions if they are granted service credit, as required by USERRA, for the period of active duty deployment; require employers to make contributions, for service credited to employees as required by USERRA, who are called to active duty military deployment: make conforming amendments; amend KRS 61.557 to make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.560 to clarify that retirees reemployed on or after 9/1/2008 shall not pay into the systems and to make conforming amendments; amend KRS 61.590 to make technical changes and to clarify that a retiring employee must separate employment with all participating system employers; amend KRS 61.623 to require all recipients of a retirement allowance from Kentucky Retirement Systems to receive retirement allowance payments by electronic funds transfer to a financial institution; provide that if the member does not have a bankaccount or the member's bank does not participate in electronic funds transfers that the member will receive payment of his or her retirement allowance to an electronic fund transfer card issued by Kentucky Retirement Systems; amend KRS 61.645 to allow the Kentucky Retirement Systems board by promulgation of administrative regulation to conduct trustee elections by electronic ballot; amend KRS 61.650 to increase the Kentucky Retirement Systems investment committee membership from 5 trustees to 7 trustees and to make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.680 to provide for consolidation of accounts with other state-administered retirement systems only if the member retires simultaneously from all state-administered retirement systems or retires from the other state-administered retirement systems within one month of retiring from the systems administered by Kentucky Retirement Systems; make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.702 to define "monthly contribution rate"; require recipients or the spouse or dependent children of a recipient of a retirement allowance, who is eligible to participate in Medicare to participate in the plans administered by the systems for Medicare eligible recipients; provide that a member who retired prior to July 1, 2003, who has established a second retirement account shall not receive more than the monthly contribution rate for retiree health benefits: make technical amendments; amend KRS 16.520, 61.525, 61.5525, 61.592, 78.540, 78.610, and 78.615 to make technical and conforming amendments; provide non-codified section to provide that the successor of the additional board trustee elected by the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) added by SB 2 in the 2013 Regular Session shall be elected in the same period as all other CERS trustees in 2017 and shall have a shortened term from 2017 to 2021 to coincide with all other future CERS trustee terms of office.
Title
AN ACT relating to Kentucky Retirement Systems.
Sponsors
| Rep. Brent Yonts [D] |
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-03-11 | House | to Rules (H) |
| 2015-03-11 | House | received in House |
| 2015-03-11 | Senate | passed 36-0 with Committee Substitute (2), committee amendment (1-title) |
| 2015-03-11 | Senate | Committee Substitute (1) withdrawn |
| 2015-03-11 | Senate | 3rd reading |
| 2015-03-10 | Senate | passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day |
| 2015-03-10 | Senate | posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 10, 2015 |
| 2015-03-09 | Senate | reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (2) as a Consent Bill |
| 2015-03-09 | Senate | returned to State & Local Government (S) |
| 2015-03-09 | Senate | taken from Rules |
| 2015-03-04 | Senate | reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title) as a Consent Bill |
| 2015-03-03 | Senate | returned to State & Local Government (S) |
| 2015-03-03 | Senate | 1st reading |
| 2015-03-03 | Senate | taken from State & Local Government (S) |
| 2015-02-19 | Senate | to State & Local Government (S) |
| 2015-02-12 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2015-02-11 | House | passed 100-0 with floor amendment (1) |
| 2015-02-11 | House | placed in the Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 11, 2015 |
| 2015-02-11 | House | taken from clerk's desk |
| 2015-02-10 | House | floor amendment (1) filed |
| 2015-02-09 | House | laid on clerk's desk |
| 2015-02-09 | House | 3rd reading |
| 2015-02-06 | House | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, February 9, 2015 |
| 2015-02-06 | House | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2015-02-05 | House | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar |
| 2015-02-03 | House | posted in committee |
| 2015-01-06 | House | to State Government (H) |
| 2015-01-06 | House | introduced in House |
