Bill Text: MI SB0939 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Retirement; military; Michigan military retirement pay; increase under certain circumstances. Amends sec. 411 of 1967 PA 150 (MCL 32.811).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-12 - Referred To Committee On Appropriations [SB0939 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-SB0939-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 939

 

 

April 12, 2018, Introduced by Senators BIEDA, JONES, HOPGOOD, GREGORY, HERTEL and KNEZEK and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 

 

     A bill to amend 1967 PA 150, entitled

 

"Michigan military act,"

 

by amending section 411 (MCL 32.811), as amended by 2000 PA 472.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 411. (1) A person An individual who has completed not

 

less than 20 years of active service with the national guard

 

National Guard or defense force, or both, may retire and receive

 

retirement pay under 1 or more of the following circumstances:

 

     (a) Attainment of The individual is 62 years of age or older.

 

     (b) Ineligibility, because of federal law or regulation, for

 

further federal recognition in the person's individual's current

 

grade because of age or length of service, and termination of the

 

person's individual's commission or enlistment in the national

 

guard National Guard of the United States.

 

     (c) Withdrawal of the person's individual's federal

 

recognition and termination of the person's individual's commission

 

or enlistment in the national guard National Guard of the United

 

States because of physical disqualification from further service.

 

     (d) Separation The individual separates from the national

 

guard National Guard or defense force under an honorable

 

circumstance.

 

     (2) A person An individual who retires under subsection (1)(a)

 

shall receive pay of $600.00 $1,200.00 per year. A person An

 

individual who retires under subsection (1)(b), (c), or (d) shall

 

receive pay of $600.00 $1,200.00 per year upon reaching attaining

 

55 years of age.

 

     (3) Upon the death of a person an individual who has completed

 

not less than 20 years of active service with the national guard

 

National Guard or defense force, or both, and who before his or her

 

death met 1 of the circumstances described in subsection (1)(b),

 

(c), or (d), or was still in active service, a the individual's

 

surviving spouse shall receive $500.00 $1,200.00 per year until

 

death.