1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to retirement; excluding certain teacher assistant employment from 
1.3 	retirement coverage to qualify for deferred annuities augmentation.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. MSRS-GENERAL AND PERA-GENERAL; PLAN MEMBERSHIP 
1.6 	EXCLUSION AND DEFERRED ANNUITY AUGMENTATION.
 1.7 	(a) A qualified person described in paragraph (b) may, upon written application 
1.8 	filed with the executive director of the Public Employees Retirement Association, elect 
1.9 	retroactive exclusion from coverage by the general employees retirement plan of the 
1.10 	Public Employees Retirement Association for any period of teacher assistant service for 
1.11 	Independent School District No. 623, Roseville, and qualification for deferred annuities 
1.12 	augmentation for the retroactively excluded period.
1.13 	(b) A qualified person is a person who:
1.14 	(1) was born on August 13, 1953;
1.15 	(2) was employed by the Ramsey County Attorney's Office from January 20, 1995, 
1.16 	to June 22, 1999;
1.17 	(3) was employed by the state of Minnesota from June 22, 1999, to April 4, 2006; and
1.18 	(4) was employed by Independent School District No. 623, Roseville, as a teacher 
1.19 	assistant following terminating state employment from December 13, 2007, to June 6, 
1.20 	2008.
1.21 	(c) If the retroactive exclusion is elected, all member and employer contributions to 
1.22 	the general employees retirement plan of the Public Employees Retirement Association 
1.23 	made with respect to Independent School District No. 623, Roseville, teacher assistant 
1.24 	employment must be refunded with interest under Minnesota Statutes, section 353.27, 
2.1 	subdivision 7, and the qualified person is entitled, if otherwise eligible, for deferred 
2.2 	annuities augmentation from the general employees retirement plan of the Public 
2.3 	Employees Retirement Association and from the general state employees retirement plan 
2.4 	of the Minnesota State Retirement System for the period of retroactive exclusion.
2.5 	(d) Authority to make the election under this section expires September 1, 2009.

2.6 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.