Legislative Session News Archive
Regular Session News #14: RTW bill clears another hurdle; several bills achieve final passage
May 11, 2018
An amended HB 14 (Rep. Smith) was recommitted to the Senate finance committee, which passed the bill on Thursday, May 10. HB 14 would add full-time interpreter, educational transliterator, or educator of the deaf or hard of hearing and full- or part-time PreK teachers to the list of “re-employment eligible critical shortage positions” allowing retirees to return to work without a reduction of benefits (after the required wai...
Regular Session News #13: Senate retirement passes two RTW bills; other bills near final passage
May 7, 2018
Today the Senate retirement committee amended and passed two return-to-work bills: HB 13 (Rep. Miller) was amended to combine it with the proposed provisions of another return-to-work bill, HB 696 by Rep. Kevin Pearson. In sum, HB 13 would add presenter of professional development and tutor for any student in Pre-K through twelfth grade to the list of “re-employment eligible positions” allowing retirees to return to...
Regular Session News #12: Mid-way through session, RTW bills continue to move
May 4, 2018
Week in review HB 34 (Rep. Pearson) achieved House concurrence this week. This bill would allow state and statewide retirement systems to allocate a portion of their investments to a terror-free fund rather than a terror-free index fund as currently required by law. TRSL is now monitoring a new House concurrent resolution, HCR 82 (Rep. Bagley), filed Monday, which would create a task force to study issues relative to the emp...
Regular Session News #11: Actuary, membership, and PRSAC bills move forward
Apr 27, 2018
Today the House retirement committee passed three bills sponsored by Sen. Barrow Peacock which will now go to the House floor for consideration. SB 4 (Sen. Peacock) would restrict the duties of Board-appointed actuaries to actuarial matters and would reaffirm the ability of state and statewide retirement systems to appoint independent actuaries. SB 6 (Sen. Peacock) would prohibit a TRSL member with at least five years o...