Minnesota Session Laws - 1993, Regular Session

  
    Laws of Minnesota 1993 

                        CHAPTER 189-H.F.No. 690 
           An act relating to retirement; public employees 
          retirement association; disability benefits; reducing 
          the reduction in benefits to coordinate them with 
          amounts received under workers' compensation law for 
          certain former employees. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [COORDINATION WITH WORKERS' COMPENSATION 
PAYMENTS; CERTAIN DISABILITY BENEFIT RECIPIENTS.] 
    Subdivision 1.  [APPLICABILITY.] This section applies to a 
former employee of the city of Worthington who was born on 
October 10, 1930; who was employed by the city from January 1, 
1955 to May 7, 1991; who was injured on the job on March 12, 
1990; and who began drawing disability benefits on May 8, 1991. 
    Subd. 2.  [REDUCTION IN BENEFITS; JOINT AND SURVIVOR 
ANNUITY.] Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 353.33, 
subdivision 5, the association shall reduce the benefit paid 
under a joint and survivor annuity to a person described in 
subdivision 1 only to the extent that the sum of the benefit and 
the amounts received under workers' compensation law, equal the 
greater of: 
    (1) the salary the person received as of the date of the 
disability; or 
    (2) the salary currently payable for the same employment 
position or an employment position substantially similar to the 
one the person held as of the date of the person's disability. 
    Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1 is effective the first day of the month following 
the day of final enactment. 
    Presented to the governor May 12, 1993 
    Signed by the governor May 14, 1993, 9:53 p.m.