Substitute House Bill No. 5959
Substitute House Bill No. 5959
PUBLIC ACT NO. 97-152
AN ACT CONCERNING RETIREMENT OPTIONS FOR EMPLOYEES
OF REGIONAL WORK FORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARDS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subdivision (1) of section 7-425
of the general statutes is repealed and the
following is substituted in lieu thereof:
(1) "Municipality" means any town, city,
borough, school district, taxing district, fire
district, district department of health, probate
district, housing authority, REGIONAL WORK FORCE
DEVELOPMENT BOARD ESTABLISHED UNDER SECTION 31-3k,
flood commission or authority established by
special act or regional planning agency.
Sec. 2. Subsection (a) of section 7-427 of
the general statutes is repealed and the following
is substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) Any municipality except a housing
authority, which is governed by subsection (b) of
this section OR A REGIONAL WORK FORCE DEVELOPMENT
BOARD ESTABLISHED UNDER SECTION 31-3k, WHICH IS
GOVERNED BY SECTION 3 OF THIS ACT, may, by
resolution passed by its legislative body and
subject to such referendum as may be hereinafter
provided, accept this part as to any department or
departments of such municipality as may be
designated therein, including elective officers if
so specified, free public libraries which receive
part or all of their income from municipal
appropriation, and the redevelopment agency of
such municipality whether or not such municipality
is a member of the system, as defined in section
7-452, but such acceptance shall not repeal, amend
or replace, or affect the continuance of, any
pension system established in such municipality by
or under the authority of any special act and all
such special acts shall remain in full force and
effect until repealed or amended by the General
Assembly or as provided by chapter 99. The
acceptance of this part as to any department or
departments of a municipality shall not affect the
right of such municipality to accept it in the
future as to any other department or departments.
In any municipality other than a district
department of health, housing authority, flood
commission or authority, regional planning agency
or supervision district board of education, such
resolution shall not take effect until it has been
approved by a majority of the electors of the
municipality voting thereon at the next regular
election or meeting or at a special election or
meeting called for the purpose. The effective date
of participation shall be at least ninety days
subsequent to the receipt by the Retirement
Commission of the certified copy of such
resolution. The Retirement Commission shall
furnish to any municipality contemplating
acceptance of this part, at the expense of such
municipality, an estimate of the probable cost to
such municipality of such acceptance as to any
department or departments thereof.
Sec. 3. (NEW) If the majority of the members
of a regional work force development board vote to
participate in part II of chapter 113 of the
general statutes, employees of a regional work
force development board who are eligible under
section 7-425 of the general statutes, as amended
by section 1 of this act, and who are not members
of the Municipal Employees Retirement Fund B shall
become members thereof on July 1, 1998. Membership
in any other retirement system shall terminate on
said date. The members of a regional work force
development board shall arrange for termination of
such systems, which arrangements shall include
provision that the rights of members who retired
prior to July 1, 1998, under such system shall not
be affected and provision that any refunds of
employee contributions made to such other
retirement system shall be transferred to the
Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund B and the
appropriate amount credited to the account of each
transferring employee's benefit. Each employee of
the regional work force development board shall
pay his pro rata share of the actual cost of such
transfer at no additional cost to the municipality
or board.
Sec. 4. (NEW) (a) Any employee of a regional
work force development board which has voted to
participate in part II of chapter 113 of the
general statutes who previously was an employee of
a private industry council shall receive credit
for the purposes of retirement under the
provisions of part II of chapter 113 of the
general statutes for the period of his service
with the private industry council upon payment to
the municipal employees retirement fund of a sum
equal to that which he would have paid had such
service been covered by the provisions of part II
of chapter 113 of the general statutes, provided
such sum is paid within one year of the date of
such board's first participation in part II of
chapter 113 of the general statutes.
(b) Any employee of a regional work force
development board which has voted to participate
in part II of chapter 113 of the general statutes
shall receive credit for the purposes of
retirement under the provisions of part II of
chapter 113 of the general statutes for the period
of his service with such board when such board was
not participating under the provisions of this
part upon payment to the municipal employees
retirement fund of a sum equal to that which he
would have paid had such service been covered by
the provisions of part II of chapter 113 of the
general statutes, provided such sum is paid within
one year of the date of such board's first
participation in part II of chapter 113 of the
general statutes.
Approved June 25, 1997