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H. B. 2049


(By Delegate Hall)

[Introduced February 14, 2001 ; referred to the

Committee on Pensions and Retirement then Finance.]





A BILL to amend and reenact section fifteen, article ten, chapter five of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to the West Virginia public employees retirement act; and military service credit being considered as contributed service.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That section fifteen, article ten, chapter five of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 10. WEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT ACT.

§5-10-15. Military service credit; qualified military service.

(a)(1) In addition to any benefit provided by federal law, any member of the retirement system who has previously served in or
enters the active service of the armed forces of the United States during any period of compulsory military service shall receive credited service for said time spent in the armed forces of the United States, not to exceed five seven years if such member:
(A) Has been honorably discharged from the armed forces;

(B) Substantiates by appropriate documentation or evidence his or her active military service and entry therein during any period of compulsory military service; and

(C) Pays to the members' deposit fund the amount he or she may have withdrawn therefrom, together with regular interest from the date of withdrawal to the date of repayment.

(2) Any member of the retirement system who enters the active service of the armed forces of the United States during any period of compulsory military service shall receive the credit provided by this section regardless of whether he or she was a public employee at the time of entering the military service.

(3) No member may receive the credit described in this section for any period for which the member has received credit under section ten-b of this article.

(b) In any case of doubt as to the period of service to be credited a member under the provisions of this section, the board
of trustees shall have final power to determine such period.
(c) During the period of such armed service and until the member's return to the employ of a participating public employer, his or her contributions to the retirement system shall be suspended and any credit balance remaining in the members' deposit fund shall be accumulated at regular interest.

(d) Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this section, contributions, benefits and service credit with respect to qualified military service shall be provided in accordance with Section 414(u) of the Internal Revenue Code. For purposes of this section, "qualified military service" has the same meaning as in Section 414(u) of the Internal Revenue Code. The retirement board is authorized to determine all questions and make all decisions relating to this section and, pursuant to the authority granted to the retirement board in section one, article ten-d of chapter five, may promulgate rules relating to contributions, benefits and service credit to comply with Section 414(u) of the Internal Revenue Code.



NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to grant military service credit up to seven years towards contributing service for computation of retirement benefits under the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement Act.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
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