Retirement and Pensions Legislation - Kentucky

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 36 to establish definitions; establish right of military leave for a member of the Kentucky National Guard or Reserve component with Kentucky as home of record and require reasonable notice be given to employer of that member; establish reemployment rights for returning members at the same pay and benefits as if the member had been continuously employed if member contacts employer within specified amount of time after return from active duty, or in another position if the member has a disability which makes them unqualified for their previous position; limit reemployment rights to members honorably discharged or otherwise satisfactorily released from active duty and when active duty is less than five years cumulatively; establish right to continue insurance benefits during active duty; provide that rights are supplemental to any federal rights and does not supersede any agreement that provide more beneficial rights to members; establish right of a member [...]

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Amend KRS 158.070 to permit public school employees other than teachers to participate in statewide professional meetings with substitutes when needed; amend KRS 161.011 to define "progressive discipline" as a process to deal with job-related behavior that does not meet expected and communicated performance standards; establish due process and hearing procedures for classified employees notified that their contracts will not be renewed; require the board policy to provide a process that includes for verbal and written warnings, public and private reprimands, probation with a corrective action plan, and suspensions with pay or without pay of up to seven days prior to termination; establish due process procedures for an employee who has completed four years of continuous active service; establish a process to require the commissioner of education to appoint a hearing officer upon request; establish the right of appeal to the Circuit Court in the county where the school district is located;[...]

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Amend KRS 16.505, 61.510, and 78.510 to clarify that the fiscal year shall be used for determining contribution and benefit limits under the federal tax code, to ensure actuarial equivalence of all retirement payment options, to define membership date, and to make technical amendments; amend KRS 16.576, 16.578, and 61.640 to require a deceased member's estate to take lump-sum payments rather than a monthly payment and to make technical amendments; amend KRS 16.582 to make technical amendments; amend KRS 61.552 to allow an employee to separate service purchases on a new installment payment plan with the systems that were grouped under a previous installment payment plan and to allow the employee to pay off a portion of the contract if payments on the contract have been stopped; amend KRS 61.565 to comply with Governmental Accounting Standards Board practices for completion of the annual actuarial valuation and to allow the board to determine the amortization period for future benefit improvements;[...]

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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to require the Personnel Cabinet to establish health insurance plans for Medicare-eligible retirees participating in the state-administered retirement systems and to establish minimum benefits; amend KRS 18A.225 to amend definition of employee to include employees of public and private employers for purposes of participation in the state health plan and to establish minimum benefits of the state health plan; amend KRS 18A.2254 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to require public agencies and the state-administered retirement systems to participate in the state health plan and to allow private employers to participate in the state health plan; amend KRS 79.080 to require participation by local government agencies in the state health plan by January 1, 2010; amend KRS 61.702 to require the Kentucky Retirement Systems to provide health insurance coverage through the state health plans and to make amendments to the hazardous duty retiree [...]

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