Kentucky Senate Bill 27 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: Introduced on January 2 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-01-03 - to State & Local Government (S)
Pending: Senate State & Local Government Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

Create a new section of KRS 6.145 to 6.237 to allow an individual who becomes a member of the General Assembly on or after the effective date of the Act to make a one-time irrevocable election to not participate in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System for his or her service to the General Assembly; allow an individual who has not yet met the requirements for vesting to make a one-time irrevocable election within 60 days of the effective date of this Act to discontinue participation in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System for his or her service to the General Assembly and receive a refund of his or her accumulated account balance; provide that the election to not participate or discontinue participation in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Kentucky Employees Retirement System shall apply to all future service of the General Assembly; amend KRS 6.505, 61.510, 61.525, 61.535, and 61.625 to conform.

AN ACT relating to retirement benefit participation for members of the General Assembly.

Sen. Rick Girdler [R]

Sen. Stephen Meredith [R]

Sen. C.B. Embry [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-03	Senate	to State & Local Government (S)
2018-01-02	Senate	introduced in Senate
2017-09-28	Senate	Prefiled by the sponsor(s).

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/SB27.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/SB27/bill.pdf