Relating to retirement; modifying and clarifying certain provisions under the teachers retirement association (TRA); clarifying the definition of dependent child for general and survivor benefit eligibility proposes, eliminating the support percentage requirement; eliminating the time limit on employing unit certification of family leave to the association and a certain restriction on the beginning date for the accrual of retirement annuities; enhancing benefits for surviving spouses of members dying before retirement; expanding survivor benefits eligibility for dependent children; providing for coverage of designated beneficiaries; clarifying certain benefit application and annuity computation provisions; expanding certain member data reporting requirements; modifying qualified part time teacher program requirements for legislators; expanding the provision providing for repayment of refunds under public pension plans to payments for allowable service credit or eligible leaves of absence and repealing a certain provision providing for payment for the purchase of allowable service credit under the first class cities teachers retirement fund associations (je)