SF 3041

1st Engrossment - 89th Legislature (2015 - 2016) Posted on 03/30/2016 08:28am

A bill for an act
relating to data practices; requiring statewide retirement systems to provide
member service credit and retirement eligibility data to political subdivisions
upon request; authorizing statewide retirement systems to charge a fee for data
retrieval; amending Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 13.43, subdivision 2a, by
adding a subdivision.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 13.43, subdivision 2a, is amended to read:

Subd. 2a.

Data disclosure by statewide pension plans new text begin ; general rule new text end .

Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, with respect to data collected and maintained on
members, survivors, and beneficiaries by statewide retirement systems that is classified
as public data in accordance with subdivision 2, those retirement systems may be only
required to disclose name, gross pension, and type of benefit awarded, except as required by new text begin
subdivision 2b, and new text end sections 13.03, subdivisions 4 and 6; and 13.05, subdivisions 4 and 9.

Sec. 2.

Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 13.43, is amended by adding a subdivision to
read:

new text begin Subd. 2b. new text end

new text begin Statewide retirement systems; data on member service credit and
retirement eligibility. new text end

new text begin Upon request of a political subdivision, a statewide retirement
system shall provide member service credit data and retirement eligibility data on an
employee of the political subdivision, including the employee's rule of 90 eligibility
date. The statewide retirement system may require the requesting political subdivision
to pay the actual cost of supplying the data. For purposes of this subdivision, member
service data and retirement eligibility data include any data from a member's previous
public employers that apply to the member's service credit and retirement eligibility. Data
provided under this subdivision may only be used for workforce planning purposes and
are only accessible to persons whose work assignment reasonably requires access to
the data for those purposes. Only summary data on retirement eligibility dates by job
classification may be shared within the political subdivision.
new text end