2001 Minnesota Statutes

  355.02 Agreements.  

    Subdivision 1.  The state agency, with the approval of the 
 governor, is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement on 
 behalf of the state with the Secretary of Health, Education, and 
 Welfare, consistent with the terms and provisions of this 
 chapter, as amended, for the purpose of extending the benefits 
 of the federal old age and survivors insurance system to 
 employees of the state or any political subdivision thereof with 
 respect to services specified in such agreement which constitute 
 "employment," whenever so specifically authorized by the 
 statutory provisions of this state pertaining to any coverage 
 group of such employees to which the agreement may become 
 applicable under the Social Security Act.  Pursuant to such 
 specific authorization the agreement may contain such provisions 
 relating to coverage, benefits, contributions, effective date, 
 modification and termination of the agreement, administration, 
 and other appropriate provisions as the state agency and the 
 Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall agree upon, 
 but, except as may be otherwise required by or under the Social 
 Security Act as to the services to be covered, such agreement 
 shall provide in effect that 

    (1) Benefits will be provided for employees whose services 
 are covered by the agreement (and their dependents and 
 survivors) on the same basis as though such services constituted 
 employment within the meaning of title II of the Social Security 
 Act; 

    (2) The state will pay to the secretary of the treasury, at 
 such time or times as may be prescribed under the Social 
 Security Act, contributions with respect to wages, equal to the 
 sum of taxes which would be imposed by the Federal Insurance 
 Contributions Act if the services covered by the agreement 
 constituted employment within the meaning of that act; 

    (3) Such agreement shall be effective with respect to 
 services in employment covered by the agreement performed after 
 a date specified therein but in no event may it be effective 
 with respect to any such services performed prior to the first 
 day of the calendar year in which such agreement is entered into 
 or in which the modification of the agreement making it 
 applicable to such services, is entered into except that an 
 agreement or modification entered into prior to January 1, 1960, 
 may be effective with respect to services performed after 
 December 31, 1955, or after a later date specified in such 
 agreement or modification; 

    (4) All services which constitute employment and are 
 performed in the employ of the state or any of its political 
 subdivisions by employees thereof, may be covered by such 
 agreement whenever so specifically authorized by the statutory 
 provisions of this state pertaining to any coverage group of 
 such employees to which the agreement may become applicable 
 under the Social Security Act.  

    Subd. 2.  Any instrumentality jointly created by this state 
 and any other state or states is hereby authorized, upon the 
 granting of like authority by such other state or states, (1) to 
 enter into an agreement with the Secretary of Health, Education, 
 and Welfare whereby the benefits of the federal old age and 
 survivors insurance system shall be extended to employees of 
 such instrumentality, (2) to require its employees to pay (and 
 for that purpose to deduct from their wages) contributions equal 
 to the amounts which they would be required to pay under section 
 355.03, subdivision 1, if they were covered by an agreement made 
 pursuant to subdivision 1, and (3) to make payments to the 
 secretary of the treasury in accordance with such agreement, 
 including payments from its own funds, and otherwise to comply 
 with such agreements.  Such agreements shall, to the extent 
 practicable, be consistent with the terms and provisions of 
 subdivision 1 and other provisions of this chapter, as amended. 

    HIST: 1955 c 665 s 3; 1959 c 558 s 3,4