Minnesota Session Laws - 1992, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1992 

                        CHAPTER 373-H.F.No. 1744 
           An act relating to retirement; public employees 
          retirement association; providing entitlement for 
          optional annuities to certain surviving spouses of 
          certain deceased disabilitants; mandating a study of 
          coordinated program survivorship benefit gaps. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION; 
RETROACTIVE ENTITLEMENT FOR OPTIONAL ANNUITY FORM COVERAGE FOR 
CERTAIN SURVIVORS.] 
    Notwithstanding any provision of Minnesota Statutes, 
section 353.33, subdivision 2, to the contrary, the surviving 
spouse of a deceased member of the public employees retirement 
association who: 
    (1) requested disability information from the association 
on June 5, 1991; 
    (2) made a valid application for Social Security disability 
benefits; 
    (3) died on June 22, 1991; and 
    (4) had accumulated salary deductions to the credit of his 
account as of the date of death in the amount of $11,801.55; 
is entitled, upon application, to the survivor portion of an 
actuarial equivalent 100 percent joint and survivor optional 
annuity form based on the disability benefit that would have 
been payable to the decedent before the decedent's death if the 
decedent had filed a valid and timely disability benefit 
application. 
    The application to be filed by the surviving spouse shall 
be in the form prescribed by the executive director of the 
public employees retirement association.  The optional annuity 
accrues as of July 1, 1991, and the initial optional annuity 
payment made after the effective date of this section shall 
include back payments to July 1, 1991. 
     Sec. 2.  [STUDY OF COORDINATED MEMBER SURVIVOR COVERAGE 
GAPS.] 
    The legislative commission on pensions and retirement shall 
study the subject of gaps in survivor coverage that exist for 
members of public pension coordinated programs in Minnesota and 
shall report on the results of its study and any associated 
proposed legislation on or before January 4, 1993.  The results 
of the study and any proposed legislation must be reported to 
the chairs of the governmental operations committee of the house 
of representatives, the governmental operations committee of the 
senate, the appropriations committee of the house of 
representatives, and the finance committee of the senate. 
    Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Sections 1 and 2 are effective the day following final 
enactment. 
    Presented to the governor March 30, 1992 
    Signed by the governor April 1, 1992, 5:10 p.m.