West Virginia Senate Bill 300 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Introduced on January 26 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-19 - To Finance
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to clarify the type of National Guard service eligible for noncontributory military service credit and to award up to five years of noncontributory military service credit to individuals who first became an employee of a PERS participating public employer before July 1, 2015; to prohibit individuals who first become an employee of a participating public employer on or after July 1, 2015 from receiving noncontributory military service credit, but allow them to purchase up to five years of military service credit; to clarify the prohibition on multiple uses of a period of military service to obtain military service credit in more than one plan administered by the board; to clarify the applicability of federal law and regulations to purchases of qualified military service; to eliminate the applicability of the liberality clause to the board’s decisions to grant or deny applications for military service credit; and to make other technical clarifications and corrections.

Relating to military service credit for PERS members

Sen. Ed Gaunch [R]

Sen. Charles Trump [R]

Sen. Ron Stollings [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-19	Senate	To Finance
2015-02-19	Senate	Reported do pass, but first to Finance
2015-01-26	Senate	To Pensions
2015-01-26	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2015-01-26	Senate	To Pensions then Finance
2015-01-26	Senate	Filed for introduction

SB551 (Similar To) 2015-02-23 - To Finance
HB2929 (Similar To) 2015-02-24 - To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
5	10	15	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=300&year=2015&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb300%20intr.htm&yr=2015&sesstype=RS&i=300