Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF2379

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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