1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to data practices; requiring statewide retirement systems to provide 
1.3 	member service credit and retirement eligibility data to political subdivisions 
1.4 	upon request; authorizing statewide retirement systems to charge a fee for data 
1.5 	retrieval;amending Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 13.43, subdivision 2a, by 
1.6 	adding a subdivision.
1.7 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.8 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 13.43, subdivision 2a, is amended to read:
1.9 		Subd. 2a.Data disclosure by statewide pension plans; general rule.
 1.10 	Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, with respect to data collected and maintained on 
1.11 	members, survivors, and beneficiaries by statewide retirement systems that is classified 
1.12 	as public data in accordance with subdivision 2, those retirement systems may be only 
1.13 	required to disclose name, gross pension, and type of benefit awarded, except as required by
1.14 	subdivision 2b, and sections 13.03, subdivisions 4 and 6; and 13.05, subdivisions 4 and 9.

1.15 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 13.43, is amended by adding a subdivision to 
1.16 	read:
1.17 		Subd. 2b.Statewide retirement systems; data on member service credit and 
1.18 	retirement eligibility. Upon request of a political subdivision, a statewide retirement 
1.19 	system shall provide member service credit data and retirement eligibility data on an 
1.20 	employee of the political subdivision, including the employee's rule of 90 eligibility 
1.21 	date. The statewide retirement system may require the requesting political subdivision 
1.22 	to pay the actual cost of supplying the data. For purposes of this subdivision, member 
1.23 	service data and retirement eligibility data include any data from a member's previous 
1.24 	public employers that apply to the member's service credit and retirement eligibility. Data 
2.1 	provided under this subdivision may only be used for workforce planning purposes and 
2.2 	are only accessible to persons whose work assignment reasonably requires access to 
2.3 	the data for those purposes. Only summary data on retirement eligibility dates by job 
2.4 	classification may be shared within the political subdivision.