CORRECTIONS OFFICER RETIREMENT PLAN
2002 ENACTED LEGISLATION

HB 2118  Retirement Benefits

This bill would (1) increase the pension for a surviving spouse of a retired member from the current 75 percent to 80 percent of the member's monthly pension, (2) increase currently existing survivors pensions from 37and 1/2 percent to 40 percent of the member's monthly salary. The amendment proposes to give the surviving spouse of a member killed in the line of duty a monthly pension benefit equal to the member's average monthly benefit compensation, (3) clarify the current requirement that a "member" in the PSPRS or CORP customarily work at least forty hours in a normal week, and (4) make a technical correction to the the definition of "Normal retirement date" in the CORP plan to clarify that dispatchers may retire after twenty-five years of service; (5) Amendment 4529 which incorporates SB 1417 and allows the restriction on pension for an elected official who retires and then is elected again is lifted to a degree by providing that it applies only within a time period following the member's retirement that is less than one full term for that office. Retroactive to the start of 1997. 

Current Action:  Assigned House Retirement and Government Operations; Hearing 1/22/02, Held; Hearing 1/28/02 Passed with amendment # 3060; House COW approved with amendments included above, 4/4/02; Referred to Senate Finance Committee 4/09/02, Hearing 4/22/02; passed 4/23/02; 4/30/02 passed Senate rules with technical amendment; Senate COW approved w/ floor amendment 5/8/02; Passed Senate 5/13/02, ready for House action on Senate Amendments; House concurred in Senate amendments and passed on final reading 58-0, ready for governor 5/20/02. Signed by Governor 6/4/02. Chap. 335, Laws 2002.

HB 2213 Reviser's technical corrections

Corrections of numerous defective and/or conflicting statutes; no apparent substantive change.

Current Action:  Assigned House Retirement and Government Operations; Hearing 1/22/02, Held; Hearing 1/29/02 Passed; Passed House 3/18/02; Referred Senate Government; Passed 3/26/02; 4/18/02 passed Senate rules with technical amendment; Senate COW approved w/ the rules technical amendment 5/6/02; passed Senate, ready for House action on Senate amendments 5/7/02; House concurred on Senate amendments and passed on final reading 52-3; ready for governor 5/16/02; signed by governor 5/20/02;  Chapter 241, laws 2002.