Bill Text: NC H960 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Retirement Creditable Service Charter Schools
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-06-30 - Ch. SL 2016-82 [H960 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2015-H960-Chaptered.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2015
SESSION LAW 2016-82
HOUSE BILL 960
AN ACT to modify the ability of a member of the teachers' and state employees' retirement system to purchase credit for employment in a charter school operated by A private nonprofit corporation AND TO REQUIRE COST ESTIMATES FOR STATUTORY CHANGES TO SERVICE PURCHASE PROVISIONS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 135‑4(cc) reads as rewritten:
"(cc) Credit for
Employment in Charter School Operated by a Private Nonprofit Corporation. – Any
member may purchase creditable service for any employment as an employee of a
charter school operated by a private nonprofit corporation whose board of
directors did not elect to participate in the Retirement System under
G.S. 135‑5.3 upon completion of five years of membership service after
that charter school employment by making a lump‑sum payment into the
Annuity Savings Fund. The payment by the member shall be equal to the full
liability of the service credits calculated on the basis of the assumptions
used for purposes of the actuarial valuation of the Retirement System's
liabilities, taking into account the additional retirement allowance arising on
account of the additional service credits commencing at the earliest age at
which the member could retire with an unreduced retirement allowance, as
determined by the Board of Trustees upon the advice of the actuary plus an
administrative expense fee to be determined by the Board of Trustees. Creditable
service purchased under this subsection shall not exceed a total of five years.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subsection that provide
for the purchase of service credits, the terms "full cost",
"full liability", and "full actuarial cost" include assumed
annual postretirement allowance increases, as determined by the Board of
Trustees, from the earliest age at which a member could retire on an unreduced
service allowance."
SECTION 2. G.S. 135‑8(b)(5)d. is repealed.
SECTION 3. G.S. 120‑114 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(g) In addition to the other requirements of this section, if a bill or resolution adds or modifies service purchase provisions, the Fiscal Research Division shall obtain an estimate of the cost impact of those provisions using the 30‑year United States Treasury constant maturity and cost‑of‑living adjustment and salary increase assumptions consistent with that rate as of December of the year of the most recent actuarial valuation in addition to the cost of the provision using the valuation assumptions."
SECTION 4. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27th day of June, 2016.
s/ Daniel J. Forest
President of the Senate
s/ Tim Moore
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Pat McCrory
Governor
Approved 9:09 a.m. this 30th day of June, 2016
