State Pensions And Retirement
Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Military Service Credit - Eligibility [SB-487]
Authorizing certain members of the State Retirement and Pension System to receive credit for certain military service even if the member receives military service credit in another retirement system.
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State Retirement Agency - Monitoring and Recording of Automated Outgoing Telephone Calls - Authorization [SB-463]
Altering the authority of the Board of Trustees of the State Retirement and Pension System to adopt regulations to manage, for certain purposes, the monitoring and recording of incoming telephone conversations to the Member Services division of the State Retirement Agency to include outgoing telephone conversations initiated by the automated virtual hold callback feature of the system; requiring the Board to adopt rules regarding the retention of recordings; and prohibiting the retention of recordings for longer than 10 years.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
State Retirement and Pension System – Death Benefits for Children [SB-462]
Altering certain provisions of law related to the time until which certain survivor benefits for surviving children of certain members of the State Retirement and Pension System are available; etc.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
State Police Retirement System and Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Member Contributions [HB-588]
Providing that members of the State Police Retirement System no longer make member contributions after 28 years of service credit is earned; and providing that certain members of the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System no longer make member contributions after 32 years and 6 months of service credit is earned.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program - Participation - County, Municipal Corporation, or County Board Retirees [HB-602]
Authorizing certain retired employees of a county, municipal corporation, or county board to participate in the State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits program under certain circumstances; and requiring the governing body of a county, municipal corporation, or county board to pay certain costs and to make certain determinations with regard to certain retirees under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program - Participation [HB-537]
Requiring certain employment with Anne Arundel Community College to be included in the calculation of State service to determine eligibility to participate as a retiree in the State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program if the individual was participating in a certain optional retirement plan and retired from the University System of Maryland; etc.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program - Participation [SB-339]
Requiring certain employment with Anne Arundel Community College to be included in the calculation of State service to determine eligibility to participate as a retiree in the State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program; etc.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Membership - Chaplains [HB-446]
Altering the membership of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System to include Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services employees in the position of chaplain on or after July 1, 2020; requiring a certain transfer and combination of certain service credit for certain individuals; requiring the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to calculate a certain disability benefit for certain individuals and to grant a certain benefit under certain circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems - Obsolete Reemployment Provisions [SB-236]
Updating and altering certain obsolete provisions relating to the reemployment of certain teachers and principals who are retirees of the Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems - Obsolete Reemployment Provisions [HB-251]
Updating and altering certain obsolete provisions relating to the reemployment of certain teachers and principals who are retirees of the Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Teachers' Pension System - Option Election [HB-115]
Allowing certain retirees of the Teachers' Pension System to elect a change in an optional form of allowance; specifying the manner in which an election to change a certain optional form of allowance shall be made; specifying the manner in which a retiree's allowance shall be calculated and paid under a change to an optional form of allowance made in accordance with the Act; and providing for the termination of the Act on June 30, 2021.
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Local Pension Systems - Special Disability Retirement Allowance [HB-60]
Requiring that the appropriate authority of a local pension system offer a special disability retirement allowance to a member if the member is, as determined by the appropriate authority of a local pension system, totally and permanently physically incapacitated for duty arising out of or in the course of the actual performance of duty without willful negligence by the member; exempting the appropriate authority of a local pension system from the requirements of the Act under certain circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Employees' Pension System - Membership - Study [SB-1135]
Requiring the State Retirement Agency and the Department of Legislative Services to conduct a study regarding membership in the Employees' Pension System for individuals who are employed in a position for which the budgeted hours per fiscal year are less than 500 hours; requiring the study to include specified elements; requiring the State Retirement Agency and the Department to report their findings and recommendations to the Joint Committee on Pensions on or before December 1, 2017; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Public School Employees - Required Training on Retirement Benefits [SB-1137]
Requiring the State Department of Education to establish a training program for specified public school employees regarding available retirement benefits; requiring the Department to offer the training to public school employees at least once per year; requiring the Department to work in consultation with staff from the State Retirement Agency and staff from the Maryland Supplemental Retirement Plans to provide the training program; requiring public school employees to attend the training each year; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
State Retirement Agency - Investment Division Personnel [HB-1580]
Authorizing the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to determine the qualifications and compensation of specified positions in the Investment Division in the State Retirement Agency; authorizing the Board of Trustees to create specified positions in the Investment Division; requiring specified positions to be funded from specified existing funds; requiring the Board of Trustees to report specified information to specified General Assembly committees on or before October 1 annually; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System - Membership [HB-1110]
Transferring specified individuals into the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System; requiring an individual who is transferred into the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System to make specified deposits in the annuity savings fund of the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System; requiring the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to make specified transfers to the specified accumulation fund and annuity savings fund; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
State Retirement and Pension System - Death Benefits [HB-1122]
Altering the distribution of specified survivor benefits to surviving children of specified members of the State Retirement and Pension System; requiring a disabled child to receive specified survivor benefits; allowing a death benefit to be paid if special death benefits are waived; altering the distribution of special death benefits to surviving children of members of the State Retirement and Pension System; requiring a surviving disabled child to receive specified special death benefits; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Courts - Action for Violation of Collective Bargaining Agreement or Breach of Duty of Fair Representation - Limitations Period [SB-1027]
Establishing a specified limitations period on an action for injunctive relief or damages for a violation of a collective bargaining agreement covering an employee of the State or a political subdivision of the State or a breach by an exclusive representative of the duty of fair representation owed to an employee of the State or a political subdivision of the State; and applying the Act prospectively.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Public School Employees - Required Training on Retirement Benefits [HB-1171]
Requiring the State Department of Education to establish a training program for specified public school employees regarding available retirement benefits; requiring the Department to offer the training to public school employees at least once per year; requiring the Department to work in consultation with staff from the State Retirement Agency and staff from the Maryland Supplemental Retirement Plans to provide the training program; requiring public school employees to attend the training each year; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Employees' Pension System - Membership - Study [HB-1178]
Requiring the State Retirement Agency and the Department of Legislative Services to conduct a study regarding membership in the Employees' Pension System for specified individuals who are employed in positions for which the budgeted hours are less than 500 hours per fiscal year; requiring the study to contain specified elements; requiring the State Retirement Agency and the Department of Legislative Services to report their findings and recommendations to the Joint Committee on Pensions on or before December 1, 2017; etc.