Modifying certain administrative provisions under the public employees retirement association; including certain physicians under the definition of included public employees for coverage purposes and clarifying eligibility for optional coverage of St. Paul port authority employees; modifying the definitions of termination of public service and termination of membership; expanding the definition of authorized temporary layoff to authorized seasonal layoff and defining indefinite layoff; clarifying certain PERA board of trustees membership provisions and certain election procedures and specifying the legal authority of the board; modifying certain receipts, disbursements and collection provisions for federal requirements consistency purposes; clarifying certain disability and bounce back annuity provisions, requiring certain disabilitant earnings reports; eliminating the five year term certain survivor coverage option and the authority of privately operated ambulance services to contribute to the PERA defined contribution plan; authorizing counties to certify positions for inclusion in local government correctional service retirement plan as sufficiently similar to existing positions and expanding the definition of county correctional institution to juvenile correctional facilities administered by a county or on behalf of multiple counties; making permanent a temporary disabilitant trial work period provision
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