Bill Text: CT SB00989 | 2015 | General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Reemployment And The Municipal Employees' Retirement System.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Vetoed) 2015-07-02 - Vetoed by the Governor [SB00989 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2015-SB00989-Chaptered.html
AN ACT CONCERNING REEMPLOYMENT AND THE MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 7-438 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2015):
(a) Any member retired under this part who again accepts employment from this state or from any municipality of this state other than a participating municipality, shall continue to receive his or her retirement allowance while so employed, and shall be eligible to participate, and shall be entitled to credit, in the state retirement system for the period of such state employment, but any such member shall not be eligible to participate or be entitled to credit in any municipal retirement system for the period of such municipal employment.
(b) If a member is retired under this part and again accepts employment from the same municipality from which he or she was retired or any other participating municipality, he or she shall be eligible to participate, and shall be entitled to credit, in the municipal employees' retirement system for the period of such municipal employment. Such member shall receive no retirement allowance while so employed except if (1) such employment is for less than twenty hours per week, [or] (2) his or her services are rendered for not more than ninety working days in any one calendar year, provided that any member reemployed for a period of more than ninety working days in one calendar year shall reimburse the Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund for retirement income payments received during such ninety working days, or (3) such member does not participate in the municipal employees' retirement system during the period of his or her reemployment.