State Pensions And Retirement
Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Optional Retirement Program - Eligibility - Alterations [HB-926]
Altering the eligibility provisions of the Optional Retirement Program to include individuals in specified position categories designated by specified governing boards of institutions of higher education or the Secretary of Higher Education; requiring an individual who was a participant in the Optional Retirement Program as August 22, 2004, to continue to participate in the Program under specified circumstances; and conforming specified terminology to current institutional policies regarding employment categories.
Sponsored by: Rep. Brooke Lierman
Vetoed By The Governor (duplicative) on 05/27/2016
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Higher Education - Employee Rights - Equal Employment Opportunity Program and Maryland Whistleblower Law [HB-813]
Making specified provisions of law that relate to the Equal Employment Opportunity Program and Maryland Whistleblower Law applicable to the University System of Maryland, Morgan State University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and Baltimore City Community College; requiring specified boards of specified public institutions of higher education to adopt regulations; requiring that specified personnel actions be made in a specified manner; providing for specified options for specified complaint or grievance procedures; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrienne Jones
Unfavorable Report By Appropriations; Withdrawn on 02/25/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
State Retirement and Pension System - Optional Retirement Allowances - Domestic Relations Orders [HB-763]
Requiring the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to enforce an election of a specified optional retirement allowance in a specified domestic relations order under specified circumstances; and providing that a specified election in a specified domestic relations order supersedes a member's election of, receipt of, or failure to elect a specified optional retirement allowance.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Dumais
Hearing 2/23 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/23/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Clifton T. Perkins Maximum Security Guards - Allowances [HB-582]
Altering the age at which a normal service retirement allowance begins for a member of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System who is a maximum security attendant at the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center; altering the age at which a vested allowance begins for specified members of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System who serve as maximum security attendants at the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center; and applying the Act only prospectively to an individual who retires on or after July 1, 2016; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ben Barnes
Vetoed By The Governor (duplicative) on 05/27/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
State Retirement and Pension System - Reemployment of Ordinary Disability Retirees - Earnings Limitation [HB-581]
Exempting from a specified reemployment earnings limitation specified disability retirees whose average final compensation was less than $25,000 and who are reemployed while receiving an ordinary disability retirement allowance from the State Retirement and Pension System.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ben Barnes
Vetoed By The Governor (duplicative) on 05/27/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems - Reemployment of Retirees - Clarification [HB-537]
Clarifying the number of retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System or the Teachers' Pension System that are exempt from a specified offset of a retirement allowance if they are reemployed in specified positions in a local school system or the Maryland School for the Deaf.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ben Barnes
Vetoed By The Governor (duplicative) on 05/27/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
State Retirement and Pension System - Optional Retirement Allowances - Designated Beneficiaries [HB-382]
Repealing as redundant specified provisions relating to members of the Judges' Retirement System designating multiple beneficiaries under a specified optional retirement allowance in the State Retirement and Pension System; clarifying that specified members of the State Retirement and Pension System may designate multiple beneficiaries under specified optional retirement allowances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ben Barnes
Vetoed By The Governor (duplicative) on 05/27/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
State Retirement and Pension System - Board of Trustees - Designee Appointments and Fiduciary Duties [HB-381]
Authorizing the Secretary of Budget and Management, the State Comptroller, and the State Treasurer to each appoint their respective deputies to serve as designees on the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System; and altering a specified defined term to provide for specified fiduciary duties of members of specified committees established by the Board.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ben Barnes
Vetoed By The Governor (duplicative) on 05/27/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
State Retirement and Pension System - Local Fire and Police System - Commingling of Assets [HB-380]
Repealing obsolete language authorizing the commingling of Local Fire and Police System assets with other State Retirement and Pension System assets; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ben Barnes
Vetoed By The Governor (duplicative) on 05/27/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
State Retirement and Pension System - Disability Retirement - Alterations [HB-38]
Authorizing the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to require retirees who are under normal retirement age and are receiving a disability retirement allowance to undergo a medical examination if good cause exists; authorizing the Board of Trustees to suspend a disability retirement allowance if the Board finds that a disability retiree is no longer mentally or physically incapacitated for the further performance of the normal duties of the position of the retiree at the time of retirement; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tony McConkey
Hearing 2/02 At 12:30 P.m. on 02/02/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Employees' and Teachers' Pension Systems - Alternate Contributory Pension Selection and Reformed Contributory Pension Benefit [HB-379]
Repealing the June 30, 2016, date by which individuals who were subject to the Alternate Contributory Pension Selection in the Employee's Pension System or Teachers' Pension System before separating from employment must resume employment in order to resume participation in the Alternate Contributory Pension Selection; requiring the Board of Trustees to submit a report by October 1 annually, to the Joint Committee on Pensions providing the number of specified members in specified circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ben Barnes
Vetoed By The Governor (duplicative) on 05/27/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Harford County Deputy Sheriffs Dailey and Logsdon Benefits Memorial Act [HB-1581]
Increasing from 18 years to 26 years the maximum age at which specified children of deceased members of the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System who are killed in the line of duty are no longer eligible to receive a specified death benefit; requiring the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to pay a specified death benefit under specified circumstances; applying the Act retroactively; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 12 on 04/04/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Correctional Officers' Retirement System - DROP [HB-1545]
Establishing a Deferred Retirement Option Program for members in the Correctional Officers' Retirement System who have at least 20 years and less than 25 years of eligibility service; requiring the State Retirement Agency to request specified documentation from the Internal Revenue Service; and making the Act subject to a specified contingency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Chang
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 02/19/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Membership - Correctional Case Management Specialist [HB-1438]
Altering the membership of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System to include specified correctional case management specialists, supervisors, or managers; providing that specified members of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System who meet specified criteria may receive a normal service retirement allowance that is based on specified creditable service; requiring the State Retirement Agency, on or before October 1, 2016, to notify specified individuals affected by the Act of their rights to transfer specified service credit; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrienne Jones
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 219 on 04/26/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Participating Governmental Units - Amortization Schedule [HB-1397]
Altering the calculation of the accrued liability contributions required to be paid by a participating governmental unit on account of members of the Employees' Retirement System and Employees' Pension System who are employees of a participating governmental unit; and clarifying the application of a specified amortization period to specified legislative changes.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ben Barnes
Vetoed By The Governor (duplicative) on 05/27/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Maryland Small Business Retirement Savings Program and Trust [HB-1378]
Establishing the Maryland Small Business Retirement Savings Program and Trust for private sector employees; establishing the Maryland Small Business Retirement Savings Board to implement, maintain, and administer the Program and the Trust; requiring the Board to take any action to ensure that the Program is not preempted by federal law, to establish procedures and disclosures to protect the interests of participants and employers, and to disseminate to employers and employees information about the Program prior to enrollment; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 324 on 05/10/2016
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
State Retirement and Pension System - Noncontributory Pension Benefit - Definition [SB-76]
Clarifying that the definition of "noncontributory pension benefit", as it relates to the State Retirement and Pension System, does not include the Reformed Contributory Pension Benefit.
Sponsored by: Sen. Douglas Peters
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 7 on 04/14/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Employees' Pension System - Town of Sykesville - Service Credit [SB-726]
Authorizing the Town of Sykesville to purchase specified additional service credit for specified employees; requiring specified additional service credit to be credited to specified employees on July 1 of the fiscal year in which the additional service credit is purchased; requiring a specified adjustment to a specified new entrant valuation that is used to determine a specified employer contribution in the fiscal year in which a specified purchase of service credit is made; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Justin Ready
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 195 on 05/12/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
State Retirement and Pension System - Actuarial Stress Tests [SB-640]
Requiring the General Assembly to commission its actuarial consulting firm on or before September 1, 2015, to conduct specified stress tests of future financial positions of the several systems in the State Retirement and Pension System; requiring the stress tests to be conducted using specified criteria and assumptions; requiring the actuarial accounting firm to submit its finding to specified committees of the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2015; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Johnny Salling
Hearing 3/31 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/31/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems - Reemployment of Retirees - Exemptions [SB-639]
Exempting from a specified offset of a retirement allowance specified retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System or the Teachers' Pension System who are employed in specified positions in a local school system or the Maryland School for the Deaf; authorizing local school system superintendents and the superintendent of the Maryland School for the Deaf to employ a maximum of five retirees per year who will not be subject to a specified offset of a retirement allowance; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Andrew Serafini
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 189 on 05/12/2015