1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to retirement; general employees retirement plan of the Public 
1.3 	Employees Retirement Association; authorizing the purchase of service credit by 
1.4 	certain public golf course employees.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT ASSOCIAITON-GENERAL; 
1.7 	PUBLIC GOLF COURSE EMPLOYEE SERVICE CREDIT PURCHASE.
 1.8 	(a) An eligible person described in paragraph (b) is entitled to purchase allowable 
1.9 	service credit from the general employees retirement plan of the Public Employees 
1.10 	Retirement Association for the period of employment by the city of Anoka at the 
1.11 	Greenhaven Golf Course that qualified as employment by a public employee under 
1.12 	Minnesota Statutes, section 353.01, subdivisions 2, 2a, and 2b, that was not previously 
1.13 	credited by the retirement plan.
1.14 	(b) An eligible person is a person who:
1.15 	(1) was born on July 18, 1954;
1.16 	(2) was first employed by the city of Anoka at the Greenhaven Golf Course as a 
1.17 	part-time employee in 1978;
1.18 	(3) was incorrectly characterized as an independent contractor by the city of 
1.19 	Anoka from 1982 to 1998, although the person was provided health insurance and other 
1.20 	employment recognition during portions of that period; and 
1.21 	(4) became a member of the general employees retirement plan of the Public 
1.22 	Employees Retirement Association in 1998.
1.23 	(c) The eligible person described in paragraph (b) must apply with the executive 
1.24 	director of the Public Employees Retirement Association to make the service credit 
2.1 	purchase under this section.  The application must be in writing and must include all 
2.2 	necessary documentation of the applicability of this section and any other relevant 
2.3 	information that the executive director may require.
2.4 	(d) Allowable service credit under Minnesota Statutes, section 353.01, subdivision 
2.5 	16, must be granted by the general employees retirement plan of the Public Employees 
2.6 	Retirement Association to the account of the eligible person upon the receipt of the prior 
2.7 	service credit purchase payment amount required under Minnesota Statutes, section 
2.8 	356.551.
2.9 	(e) Of the prior service credit purchase payment amount under Minnesota Statutes, 
2.10 	section 356.551, the eligible person must pay an amount equal to the employee 
2.11 	contribution rate or rates in effect during the uncredited employment period applied to the 
2.12 	actual salary rates in effect during the period, plus annual compound interest at the rate of 
2.13 	8.5 percent from the date the member contribution payment should have been made if 
2.14 	made in a timely fashion until the date on which the contribution is actually made.  If the 
2.15 	equivalent member contribution payment plus interest is made, the city of Anoka shall pay 
2.16 	the balance of the total prior service credit purchase payment amount under Minnesota 
2.17 	Statutes, section 356.551, within 60 days of notification by the executive director of the 
2.18 	Public Employees Retirement Association of the member contribution equivalent payment.
2.19 	(f) Authority for an eligible person to make a prior service credit purchase under this 
2.20 	section expires on June 30, 2007.
2.21 	(g) If the city of Anoka fails to pay its portion of the prior service credit purchase 
2.22 	payment amount under paragraph (e), the executive director of the Public Employees 
2.23 	Retirement Association must notify the commissioners of finance and revenue of that fact. 
2.24 	The commissioners shall order the deduction of the required payment amount from the 
2.25 	next subsequent payment of any state aid to the city of Anoka and shall transmit the 
2.26 	required payment amount to the general employees retirement fund.

2.27 	Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 2.28 	Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment.