l9n/ Mississippi

2011 Regular Session

House Bill 837

Retirement; participants in optional retirement program may become PERS members and purchase credit for previous service.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Appropriations Committee on February 1, 2011. The 2011 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 25-11-413, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE A THREE-MONTH PERIOD DURING WHICH ANY PARTICIPANT IN THE OPTIONAL RETIREMENT PROGRAM (ORP) FOR EMPLOYEES OF STATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING MAY CEASE PARTICIPATING IN THE ORP AND BECOME A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM (PERS); TO PROVIDE THAT ANY PERSON WHO BECOMES A MEMBER OF PERS UNDER THIS PROVISION SHALL RETAIN ALL BENEFITS EARNED UNDER THE ORP UP TO THE DATE THAT THE PERSON BECAME A MEMBER OF PERS, BUT SHALL NOT MAKE ANY FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ORP; TO AMEND SECTION 25-11-109, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN PARTICIPANTS IN THE ORP WHO CEASE PARTICIPATION IN THE ORP AND BECOME A MEMBER OF PERS SHALL BE ENTITLED TO RECEIVE A MAXIMUM OF TEN YEARS CREDITABLE SERVICE FOR SERVICE RENDERED AS A TEACHING OR ADMINISTRATIVE FACULTY EMPLOYEE OF A STATE INSTITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING IN MISSISSIPPI WHILE PARTICIPATING IN THE ORP; TO REQUIRE THE MEMBER TO PAY INTO PERS THE ACTUARIAL COST AS DETERMINED BY THE ACTUARY FOR EACH YEAR, OR PORTION THEREOF, OF THAT SERVICE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

Its course

January 17 to February 1, 2011, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action2 actions on 2 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 17 to Feb 1 · stopped15 days

AppropriationsJan 17 to Feb 1 · stopped15 days

Text

Each version as the Legislature printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Jan 17 – Feb 1

  1. Jan 17Referred to the House committee on Appropriations
  2. Feb 1Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published
  1. Jan 17Referred To AppropriationsHouse of Representatives
  2. Feb 1Died In CommitteeHouse of Representatives