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H. B. 2616


(By Delegates Perry, Beach, Morgan, Howard and Sobonya)
[Introduced February 23, 2005; referred to the
Committee on Pensions and Retirement the Finance.]




A BILL to amend and reenact §18-7A-13a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to employment of members of the teachers defined benefit retirement system by institutions of higher education following the retirement of the member.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §18-7A-13a
of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 7A. STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

§18-7A-13a. Resumption of service by retired teachers.

For the purpose of this section, reemployment of a former or retired teacher as a teacher shall in no way impair such teacher's eligibility for a prior service pension, or any other benefit provided by this article.
Retired teachers, who qualified for an annuity because of age or service, may not receive prior service allowance from the retirement board when employed as a teacher and when regularly employed by the State of West Virginia. The payment of such allowance shall be discontinued on the first day of the month within which such employment begins, and shall be resumed on the first day of the month succeeding the month within which such employment ceases. The annuity paid any such teacher on first retirement resulting from the teachers' accumulation fund and the employers' accumulation fund shall continue throughout the governmental service and thereafter according to the option selected by the teacher upon first retirement.
Retired teachers, who qualified for an annuity because of disability, shall receive no further retirement payments, if the retirement board finds that the disability of the teacher no longer exists; payment shall be discontinued on the first day of the month within which such finding is made. If such retired teacher returns to service as a teacher, he or she shall contribute to the teachers' accumulation fund as a member of the system. His or her prior service eligibility, if any, shall not be impaired because of his or her
disability retirement. His or her accumulated contributions and interest which were transferred to the benefit fund upon his or her retirement shall be returned to his or her individual account in the teachers' accumulation fund, minus retirement payments received which were not supported by such contributions and interest. Upon subsequent retirement, he or she shall receive credit for all of his or her contributory experience, anything to the contrary in this article notwithstanding.
Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, a person who retires under the system provided by this article may subsequently become employed on either a full time, part time basis or contract basis by any institution of higher education without any loss of retirement annuity or retirement benefits: if the person's retirement commences between the effective date of the enactment of this section in two thousand two and the thirty-first day of December, two thousand two Provided, That such person shall not be eligible to participate in any other state retirement system provided by this code.
The retirement board is herewith authorized to require of the retired teachers and their employers such reports as it deems necessary to effectuate the provisions of this section.



NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to remove the time restriction under which persons retiring under the teachers defined benefit retirement system are allowed to become employed by an institution of higher education without any loss of retirement benefits.

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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