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2025 Regular Session

House Bill 784

Retirees; may be employed full time in critical need or shortage position with PERS employer and draw full benefits.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's State Affairs Committee on February 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 25-11-127, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE RETIRED MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM TO BE EMPLOYED IN A POSITION FOR WHICH THE EMPLOYER HAS A CRITICAL NEED FOR OR SHORTAGE OF EMPLOYEES AND DRAW THE FULL AMOUNT OF THE RETIREE'S RETIREMENT ALLOWANCE, DURING WHICH TIME THE RETIREE MAY WORK THE FULL NUMBER OF NORMAL WORKING DAYS FOR THE POSITION AND RECEIVE THE FULL AMOUNT OF THE SALARY IN EFFECT FOR THE POSITION AT THE TIME OF EMPLOYMENT; TO PROVIDE THAT BEFORE A RETIREE MAY BE EMPLOYED IN SUCH A POSITION, THE EMPLOYER MUST PROVIDE SATISFACTORY EVIDENCE WITH QUANTIFIABLE NUMBERS TO THE RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF THE EXISTENCE OF A CRITICAL NEED FOR OR SHORTAGE OF EMPLOYEES IN THE EMPLOYER'S AGENCY, DEPARTMENT, INSTITUTION OR POLITICAL SUBDIVISION, AND SATISFACTORY EVIDENCE THAT THE EMPLOYEE HAS THE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE NECESSARY FOR THE POSITION FOR WHICH THERE IS A CRITICAL NEED OR SHORTAGE AND IN WHICH HE OR SHE WILL BE EMPLOYED; 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 16 to February 4, 2025, 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 16 to Feb 4 · stopped19 days

State AffairsJan 16 to Feb 4 · stopped19 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 16 – Feb 4

  1. Jan 16Referred to the House committees on State Affairs and on Appropriations A
  2. Feb 4Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published
  1. Jan 16Referred To State Affairs;Appropriations AHouse of Representatives
  2. Feb 4Died In CommitteeHouse of Representatives