Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Providing a Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS) and public employees
retirement association (PERA) annuitant an annuity back payment
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/07/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to Finance

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1E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, appropriating money for general legislative and administrative expenses ARTICLE 1 - STATE GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the legislature for general operations and for health care access, to the constitutional officers, to the campaign finance and public disclosure board, to the investment board, to the office of enterprise technology, to the office of administrative hearings, to the commissioner of administration for state facilities, state and community and administrative management services, for matching grants for public television, to the capitol area architectural and planning (CAAP) board, to the commissioner of finance for state financial management and information and management services, to the commissioner of employee relations (DOER), to the commissioner of revenue for tax system and accounts receivable [...]

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Latest Action: 03/21/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing a transfer of service credit from the Minnesota state retirement
system (MSRS) general state employees retirement plan to the correctional state
employees retirement plan for eligible prior correctional employment, requiring
payment of additional equivalent member contributions and additional equivalent
employer contributions payment by the department of human services under certain
conditions
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to retirement; authorizing an eligible state employee to elect to
transfer allowable service credit from the general state employees retirement
plan (MSRS) to the correctional state employees retirement plan
(MSRS-correctional) under certain conditions
(me)

Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing and providing for the purchase of prior service credit in the
general Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS) plan by a certain former
employee of the department of natural resources (DNR)
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/23/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Appropriating money to the executive director of the Minnesota state retirement
system (MSRS) for reimbursement of consulting actuary costs of the estimate for
including sentence to service employees in the correctional state employees
retirement plan
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/21/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing and providing for prior service credit coverage for certain St.
Cloud correctional facility employees; providing for additional employee
contributions and for the transfer of assets from the general state employees
retirement plan to the correctional employees plan and for the effect of the
asset transfers
(me)

Latest Action: 03/14/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Extending eligibility for early retirement incentives to certain eligible
employees in the executive or legislative branches of state government, the
board of public defense, the Minnesota historical society, the Minnesota state
colleges and universities (MnSCU) and school districts
(je)

Latest Action: 03/05/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Authorizing Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS) general plan membership for
certain middle management association employees
(rt)

Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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ARTICLE 1 - VOLUNTARY STATEWIDE LUMP-SUM VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER RETIREMENT PLAN Establishing a voluntary statewide lump-sum volunteer firefighter retirement plan; defining terms; providing coverage for all volunteer firefighters serving in fire departments in municipalities electing to have retirement coverage by the voluntary statewide lump-sum volunteer firefighter retirement plan; specifying election of coverage initiation and effective date of coverage; providing for disestablishment of local relief association special funds and transferring assets to the state board of investment and specifying other relief association changes; requiring the voluntary statewide lump-sum volunteer firefighter retirement plan to be managed and administered by the board of the voluntary statewide lump-sum volunteer firefighter retirement plan; prescribing membership, board duties, fiduciary obligation, attorney general as legal

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Latest Action: 01/04/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to retirement; defining procedures for appealing administrative
decisions by chief administrative officers; repealing certain appeal procedures
(me)

Latest Action: 02/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to retirement; extending Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS)
correctional service plan coverage to certain department of human services (DHS)
employees
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to retirement; modifying the proposed public pension plan
administrative legislation submission and review process for the Minnesota state
retirement system (MSRS), public employees retirement association (PERA),
teachers retirement association (TRA), Minneapolis employees retirement fund
(MERF), Duluth and St. Paul teachers retirement fund associations and Minnesota
state colleges and university system (MnSCU); specifying mandated subjects for
revision recommendations and a schedule; modifying supporting documentation
requirements
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/01/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Updating and making consistent the definitions of salary, average salary and
severance payments under the Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS), state
troopers and judges retirement plans, the public employees retirement
association (PERA), the teachers retirement associations (TRA) and the
Minneapolis employees retirement fund (MERF) for retirement annuity calculation
purposes
(ra)

Latest Action: 02/22/2007 - Author stricken Rest

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Relating to retirement; modifying legislator retirement allowance accrual start date; clarifying the definitions of state employee and removing obsolete references under Minnesota state retirement system coverage (MSRS) definitions; modifying the definition of allowable service; providing an authorized leave of absence service credit purchase procedure under MSRS; removing certain restrictions on surviving spouse coverage; including state fire marshal employees under MSRS provisions; providing an exemption from process for MSRS health care savings plan account assets, exception for marriage dissolution and child support; including agricultural utilization research institute, Minnesota technology incorporated and certain Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) faculty and employees in the MSRS unclassified program; making transfer from the unclassified program to the general plan irrevocable; modifying the [...]

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Latest Action: 02/19/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Providing coverage under the correctional employees retirement plan of the
Minnesota state retirement system for certain department of corrections
employees; specifying certain review committee evaluation and determination
considerations; providing for transfer of past MSRS general service credit to
MSRS correctional
(je)

Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to retirement; establishing dates for full funding for correctional
employees retirement plan under the Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS) and
the police and fire retirement plan under the public employees retirement
association (PERA)
(je)

Latest Action: 03/08/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to retirement; extending the filing deadlines for permanent disability
benefits under the Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS); requiring
terminated employees to file a written application for disability benefits;
reducing the age for the termination of disability benefits; prohibiting the
application for disability benefits by state troopers until after the last day
physically on the job, providing for accrual, requiring a written application
for disability benefits and reducing the age for optional annuity election
(je)

Latest Action: 03/23/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Modifying certain provisions relating to the salary limits for the executive
directors of the public employees retirement association (PERA), the Minnesota
state retirement system (MSRS) and the teachers retirement association (TRA);
eliminating the requirement for the senate to confirm the appointment of the
executive director of the PERA
(je)

Latest Action: 05/09/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Updating and clarifying certain omitted salary deduction provisions under the
Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS), the state patrol retirement fund, the
public employees retirement association (PERA), the local government
correctional service retirement plan, the teachers retirement associations
(TRA), the Minneapolis employees retirement fund (MERF) and the judges
retirement plan
(je)

Latest Action: 02/14/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Modifying the Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS) deferred compensation
plan; providing for statutory plan establishment, MSRS administration, right to
participate in the plan, failure to implement the plan by public employers, plan
investments, state board of investment determination of investments, plan
administrative expenses, non applicability of other laws, process exemption and
missing participants procedures; making certain conforming statutory amendments
for public retirement systems generally and Hennepin county employees bargaining
units retirement provisions, repealing current statutory language and rules for
MSRS deferred compensation
(rt)

Latest Action: 02/21/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to retirement; authorizing certain voluntary deductions from persons
entitled to receive an annuity from a public pension fund administered by the
Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS), the public employees retirement system
(PERA) or the Minneapolis employees retirement system (MERF); restricting
liability
(je)

Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Modifying state employee postretirement employment provisions; modifying certain
duties of the commissioner of employee relations (DOER) relating to
postretirement option position and renewal offers; modifying certain
reemployment of annuitant calculation requirements under the Minnesota state
retirement system (MSRS)
(je)

Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to retirement ARTICLE 1 - POSTRETIREMENT OPTION REVISION Restricting the state employee postretirement program to conform with federal in-service distribution restrictions ARTICLE 2 - REVISED REEMPLOYMENT ANNUITANT TREATMENT Increasing teachers retirement association (TRA) reemployed annuitant exempt income limit; revising reemployed annuitant account holding period ARTICLE 3 - TEACHER RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION CLARIFICATION OF STRIKE PERIOD PROCEDURE Revising TRA strike period and leave of absence service credit purchase procedures ARTICLE 4 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION REVISED PRIVATIZATION PROCEDURES Providing for certification and decertification of medical facilities and other public employing units; specifying certain eligibility determination requirements; requiring recommendation report to the legislature under certain

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Latest Action: 05/13/2008 - HF substituted by motion [HF3082]

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3E Relating to retirement; ARTICLE 1 - POSTRETIREMENT PROVISIONS Requiring the state board of investment to annually determine a composite funded ratio for state pension assets, modifying the postretirement adjustment calculation, requiring the board to determine fund total fair market value, limiting the postretirement adjustment percentage, providing a lost purchasing power increase for the Minnesota postretirement investment fund and specifying conditions, requiring a legislative report under condition of excess assets ARTICLE 2 - MINNESOTA POSTRETIREMENT INVESTMENT FUND DISSOLUTION Modifying the procedures used by the state board of investment to determine postretirement adjustments for the Minneapolis employees retirement fund; providing for Minnesota postretirement investment fund dissolution according to a transition schedule, providing for postretirement adjustments, requiring a

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Latest Action: 05/21/2007 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to the general state employees retirement plan of the Minnesota state
retirement system (MSRS); providing for payment of member contributions for
certain military service leave periods under certain conditions
(ra)

Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Relating to retirement ARTICLE 1 - ACTUARY RETAINED BY THE LEGISLATIVE COMMISSIONS ON PENSION AND RETIREMENT Providing for actuarial services to the legislature and the state; mandating the retention of the consulting actuary for various retirement related reports by the legislative commission on pensions and retirement (LCPR); eliminating certain joint contractual duties of the Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS), the public employees retirement association (PERA), the teachers retirement association (TRA), the Duluth teachers retirement fund association, the Minneapolis employees retirement fund (MERF) and the St. Paul teachers retirement fund; allocating the costs of actuarial services among retirement plans; creating a legislative commission on pensions and retirement revolving fund for actuarial services, requiring actuarial costs assessments to be credited to the account; modifying certain [...]

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Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - Introduction and first reading

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Clarifying certain positions covered by the correctional state employees
retirement plan under the Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS); making
technical changes
(me)

Latest Action: 05/16/2008 - Bill was repassed as amended by Conference

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HF 3082 FIFTH ENGROSSMENT Public and state employee retirement provisions modified, and money appropriated. ARTICLE 1 -- POSTRETIREMENT PROVISIONS Section 1: Composite funded ratio language provided. Section 2: Calculation of postretirement adjustment language modified. Section 3: Lost purchasing power increase language provided. Section 4: Excess assets trigger language provided. Section 5: Benefit adjustments for certain disability and survivor benefits language modified. Section 6: Retirement benefit fund language modified. Section 7: Teacher retirement benefits language provided. ARTICLE 2 -- MINNESOTA POSTRETIREMENT INVESTMENT FUND DISSOLUTION Section 1: Dissolution of Minnesota Postretirement Investment Fund language provided. Section 2: Proposed statutory changes language provided. ARTICLE [...]

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