Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF0183

Providing coverage under the correctional employees retirement plan of the
Minnesota state retirement system for certain correctional employees involved in
the Minnesota extended treatment options program at the Cambridge regional human
services center; authorizing and providing for employee election to retain
coverage under the general MSRS retirement plan or to transfer coverage to the
correctional employees plan, deadline; entitling employees electing to transfer
coverage to purchase prior service credit for eligible state service performed
between certain dates, defining eligible state service, requiring certification
of eligible service by the commissioner of human services and providing for
payment; providing for the transfer of assets from the general plan to the
correctional plan and for the effect of the transfer; requiring the
commissioners of human services and employee relations (DOER) and the executive
director of MSRS to provide affected employees with retirement and benefit
counseling, specifying certain counseling content requirements, requiring
commissioner of human services consultation with collective bargaining agents
relating to the counseling; providing for the retention of certain rights;
providing a health insurance early retirement incentive to certain employees
with transferred coverage (mk)