Relating to retirementARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS Excluding grievance and legal settlements from the definition of salary under the Minnesota state retirement system, exception; modifying the definition of dependent child under MSRS, the public employees retirement association (PERA), the teachers retirement association (TRA) and the state troopers, elective state officers and judges retirement plans; excluding lump sum annual leave and overtime payments made at the time of separation from state service from the definition of average monthly salary under the state troopers retirement plan and modifying the definition of allowable service under the judges retirement plan ARTICLE 2 DISABILITY Providing for psychological examinations as evidence to support applications for total and permanent disability benefits under the Minnesota state retirement system and the state troopers retirement plan; requiring a trial period under MSRS for partial reemployment after disability at a lower salary before continuation of disability benefits to increase the salary to the level at the time of disability; expanding eligibility for disability benefits for department of public safety state fire marshal division employees; increasing the age for receipt of disability benefits and modifying the provision providing for resumption of employment after disability under the MSRS correctional employees retirement plan; modifying certain provisions providing for the payment of disability benefits to reemployed state troopers and teachers ARTICLE 3 EARLY RETIREMENT Reducing the early retirement eligibility age for elective state officers and judges and modifying the determination of the early retirement annuity for judges ARTICLE 4 ELIGIBILITY Clarifying the eligibility of certain employees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities system for retirement benefits under the Minnesota state retirement system; eliminating elective state officers and modifying the exclusion of certain teachers from the definition of excluded employees under MSRS; removing employees of the educational computing corporation from coverage under the MSRS unclassified employees retirement plan; modifying certain requirements for reversion to the general MSRS retirement plan after coverage by the unclassified employees plan; clarifying the inclusion of certain MnSCU employees under the teachers retirement association (TRA) ARTICLE 5 REFUNDS Modifying or clarifying eligibility for refunds under the Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS), the public employees retirement association (PERA), the teachers retirement association (TRA) and the state troopers and judges retirement plans ARTICLE 6 SURVIVOR BENEFITSClarifying eligibility for the surviving spouse joint and survivor benefit under the Minnesota state retirement system general and correctional employees retirement plans and the teachers retirement association and eliminating the shortest surviving spouse coverage term certain option under the MSRS general plan; increasing the eligibility age for child survivor coverage under the MSRS general and correctional employees retirement plans, the public employees retirement association (PERA) and TRA; modifying the payment of death benefits to children under the state troopers retirement plan ARTICLE 7 TECHNICAL Clarifying entitlement to contribution refunds for former members of the legislature under the legislators retirement plan of the Minnesota state retirement system; requiring and providing for calculation of the total fair market value of the postretirement investment fund according to generally accepted accounting principles; reducing the time limit for payment to MSRS by state departments of omitted salary deductions and increasing the time limit for application for a deferred annuity and the dollar limit on certain refunds; increasing the time limit for remitting of amounts due to the teachers retirement association by employers; specifying certain requirements for former legislators participation in the TRA qualified part time teacher program; extending the expiration date for the prior service credit purchase payment determination procedure for all retirement plans (ra)