1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to retirement; Minneapolis Employees
1.3 	Retirement Fund; authorizing a purchase of service
1.4 	credit for a workers' compensation injury period.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. MINNEAPOLIS EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT FUND; SERVICE
1.7 	CREDIT PURCHASE FOR CERTAIN WORKERS' COMPENSATION INJURY
1.8 	PERIODS.
 1.9 	(a) An eligible person described in paragraph (b) is
1.10 	entitled to purchase allowable service credit from the
1.11 	Minneapolis Employees Retirement Fund for up to 7.5 years for
1.12 	the period of the injury that qualified for a workers'
1.13 	compensation benefit but that was not previously credited by the
1.14 	Minneapolis Employees Retirement Fund.
1.15 	(b) An eligible person is a person who:
1.16 	(1) was born on January 4, 1951;
1.17 	(2) was first employed in the engineering department of the
1.18 	city of Minneapolis in 1974;
1.19 	(3) suffered an injury that, in 1978, qualified the person
1.20 	for workers' compensation benefits;
1.21 	(4) applied for disabled status in the Minneapolis
1.22 	Employees Retirement Fund in 1986 and accrued allowable service
1.23 	credit for the period from 1986 to 1991; and 
1.24 	(5) was advised by the Minneapolis Employees Retirement
1.25 	Fund to wait until retirement age to pursue a claim for
2.1 	allowable service credit for the period from 1978 to 1985.
2.2 	(c) The eligible person described in paragraph (b) must
2.3 	apply with the executive director of the Minneapolis Employees
2.4 	Retirement Fund to make a service credit purchase under this
2.5 	section.  The application must be in writing and must include
2.6 	all necessary documentation of the applicability of this section
2.7 	and any other relevant information that the executive director
2.8 	may require.
2.9 	(d) Allowable service credit under Minnesota Statutes,
2.10 	sections 422A.15, subdivisions 1 and 4, and 422A.19, must be
2.11 	granted by the Minneapolis Employees Retirement Fund to the
2.12 	eligible person upon receipt from the applicable eligible person
2.13 	of the portion of the prior service credit purchase payment
2.14 	amount payable under paragraph (e) in a lump sum.
2.15 	(e) Notwithstanding any provision of Minnesota Statutes,
2.16 	section 356.551, to the contrary, to obtain the service credit
2.17 	an eligible person must pay an amount equal to the employee
2.18 	contribution rate or rates in effect under Minnesota Statutes,
2.19 	section 422A.10, subdivision 1, in effect during the period from
2.20 	1978 to 1985 plus annual compound interest at the rate of 8.5
2.21 	percent from the date the contribution would have been payable
2.22 	until the date the contribution is paid.  Payment must be made
2.23 	before July 1, 2006.
2.24 	(f) If the eligible person makes the payment under
2.25 	paragraph (e), the city of Minneapolis must pay the remaining
2.26 	balance of the prior service credit purchase payment amount
2.27 	determined under Minnesota Statutes, section 356.551, within 30
2.28 	days of the payment by the eligible person.  The executive
2.29 	director of the Minneapolis Employees Retirement Fund must
2.30 	notify the chief financial officer of the city of Minneapolis of
2.31 	its payment amount and its payment due date if the eligible
2.32 	person makes the required payment.  If the city of Minneapolis
2.33 	fails to pay its portion of the required prior service credit
2.34 	purchase payment amount, the executive director of the
2.35 	Minneapolis Employees Retirement Fund must notify the
2.36 	commissioner of finance of that fact within 30 days of the city
3.1 	payment due date and the commissioner of finance must order that
3.2 	the required city payment be deducted from any state aid
3.3 	otherwise payable to the city and be transmitted to the
3.4 	Minneapolis Employees Retirement Fund.

3.5 	Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 3.6 	Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment.