2000 Minnesota Statutes

     356.88 Public pension administration legislation. 

    Subdivision 1.    Due dates.  (a) Proposed 
 administrative legislation recommended by or on behalf of the 
 Minnesota state retirement system, the public employees 
 retirement association, the teachers retirement association, the 
 Minneapolis employees retirement fund, or a first class city 
 teachers retirement fund association must be presented to the 
 legislative commission on pensions and retirement, the 
 governmental operations and reform committee of the senate, and 
 the governmental operations and gaming committee of the house of 
 representatives on or before October 1 of each year in order for 
 the proposed administrative legislation to be acted upon during 
 the upcoming legislative session.  The executive director or the 
 deputy executive director of the legislative commission on 
 pensions and retirement shall provide written comments on the 
 proposed provisions to the public pension plans by November 15 
 of each year. 

    (b) Proposed administrative legislation recommended by or 
 on behalf of a public employee pension plan or system under 
 paragraph (a) must address provisions: 

    (1) authorizing allowable service credit for leaves of 
 absence and related circumstances; 

    (2) governing offsets or deductions from the amount of 
 disability benefits; 

    (3) authorizing the purchase of allowable service credit 
 for prior uncredited periods; 

    (4) governing subsequent employment earnings by reemployed 
 annuitants; and 

    (5) authorizing retroactive effect for retirement annuity 
 or benefit applications. 

    (c) Where possible and desirable, taking into account the 
 differences among the public pension plans in existing law and 
 the unique characteristics of the individual public pension fund 
 memberships, uniform provisions relating to paragraph (b) for 
 all applicable public pension plans must be presented for 
 consideration during the legislative session.  Supporting 
 documentation setting forth the policy rationale for each set of 
 uniform provisions must accompany the proposed administrative 
 legislation. 

    Subd. 2. Repealed, 1997 c 233 art 1 s 78 

    HIST: 1994 c 528 art 1 s 13