KY HB149 | 2012 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)
Status: Introduced on January 3 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-01-03 - to State Government (H)
Pending: House State Government Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]
Status: Introduced on January 3 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-01-03 - to State Government (H)
Pending: House State Government Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]
Summary
Amend KRS 6.505 to close the Legislators' Retirement Plan to legislators who have not previously participated in the plan and who begin their first term of office on or after August 1, 2012; amend KRS 6.525 to prohibit salary earned in another state-administered system from being used to determine benefits in the Legislators' Retirement Plan if the member does not have service in the other state-administered retirement systems prior to August 1, 2012; create new sections of KRS Chapter 6 to establish the Legislators' Defined Contribution Plan for legislators who begin their first term of office on or after August 1, 2012; provide that the plan shall be administered by the Kentucky Deferred Compensation Authority; allow the authority to utilize plans already established or to establish new plans to administer the Legislators' Defined Contribution Plan; provide an employer match of up to five percent of the legislator's wages; provide that a legislator participating in the plan shall be vested for employer contributions on a sliding scale that fully vests the legislator for the employer contributions at six years; provide that the benefits under the Legislators' Defined Contribution Plan shall not constitute an inviolable contract of the Commonwealth; amend KRS 18A.245 to establish responsibilities of the board of the Kentucky Deferred Compensation Authority to administer the Legislators' Defined Contribution Plan; amend KRS 61.510, governing the Kentucky Retirement Systems, to clarify that a legislator who begin his or her first term of office on or after August 1, 2012, shall not participate in these plans as a result of service in the General Assembly.
Title
AN ACT relating to retirement.
Sponsors
Sen. C.B. Embry [R] | Rep. David Housman [R] | Rep. Michael Meredith [R] | Rep. Ruth Palumbo [D] |
Rep. Ryan Quarles [R] | Rep. Alecia Webb-Edgington [R] | Rep. Susan Westrom [D] | Rep. Jill York [R] |
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2012-01-03 | to State Government (H) | |
2012-01-03 | introduced in House |
Kentucky State Sources
Type | Source |
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Summary | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB149.htm |
Text | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB149/bill.doc |