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H. B. 2766


         (By Delegates Pethtel, Canterbury, Givens,

               Ennis, Guthrie and D. Poling)


           (By request of the Consolidated Public Retirement Board)

         [Introduced January 24, 2011; referred to the

         Committee on Pensions and Retirement then Finance.]

 

A BILL to amend and reenact §7-14D-7 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the authority of the West Virginia Consolidated Public Retirement Board to determine the participating employer contribution rate for the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System.

 Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

    That §7-14D-7 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 14D. DEPUTY SHERIFF RETIREMENT SYSTEM ACT.

§7-14D-7. Members' contributions; employer contributions.

    (a) There shall be deducted from the monthly salary of each member and paid into the fund an amount equal to eight and one-half percent of his or her monthly salary. An additional amount shall be paid to the fund by the county commission of the county in which the member is employed in covered employment in an amount determined by the board. Provided, That in no year may the total of the contributions provided in this section, to be paid by the county commission, exceed ten and one-half percent of the total payroll for the members in the employ of the county commission If the board finds that the benefits provided by this article can be actually funded with a lesser contribution, then the board shall reduce the required member or employer contributions or both. The sums withheld each calendar month shall be paid to the fund no later than fifteen days following the end of the calendar month.

    (b) Any active member who has concurrent employment in an additional job or jobs and the additional employment requires the deputy sheriff to be a member of another retirement system which is administered by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board pursuant to article ten-d, chapter five of this code shall make an additional contribution to the fund of eight and one half percent of his or her monthly salary earned from any additional employment which requires the deputy sheriff to be a member of another retirement which is administered by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board pursuant to article ten-d, chapter five of this code. An additional amount shall be paid to the fund by the concurrent employer for which the member is employed in an amount determined by the board. Provided, That in no year may the total of the contributions provided in this section, to be paid by the concurrent employer, exceed ten and one-half percent of the monthly salary of the employee If the board finds that the benefits provided by this article can be funded with a lesser contribution, then the board shall reduce the required member or employer contributions or both. The sums withheld each calendar month shall be paid to the fund no later than fifteen days following the end of the calendar month.

    (c) Based on the provisions of section three, article fourteen-d, chapter seven of this code, the participating public employers' contributions to the retirement system, as determined by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board by legislative rule promulgated in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, shall be a percent of the members’ monthly salary related to benefits under this retirement system. In determining the amount, the board shall give consideration to setting the amount at a sum equal to an amount which will be sufficient to provide for the total normal cost of the benefits expected to become payable to all members and to amortize any unfunded liability found by application of the actuarial funding method chosen for that purpose by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board, over a period of years determined actuarially appropriate. When proposing a rule for promulgation which relates to the amount of employer contribution, the board may promulgate emergency rules pursuant to the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, if the inability of the board to increase employer contributions will detrimentally affect the actuarial soundness of the retirement system. A signed statement from the state actuary shall accompany the statement of facts and circumstances constituting an emergency which shall be filed in the State Register. For purposes of this section, subdivision (2), subsection (b), section fifteen-a, article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code is not applicable to the Secretary of State's determination of whether an emergency rule should be approved.

    (c) (d) If any change or employer error in the records of any participating public employer or the retirement system results in any member receiving from the system more or less than he or she would have been entitled to receive had the records been correct, the board shall correct the error, and as far as is practicable shall adjust the payment of the benefit in a manner that the actuarial equivalent of the benefit to which the member was correctly entitled shall be paid. Any employer error resulting in an underpayment to the retirement system may be corrected by the member remitting the required employee contribution and the participating public employer remitting the required employer contribution. Interest shall accumulate in accordance with the retirement board reinstatement interest as established in Legislative Rule 162 CSR 7, and any accumulating interest owed on the employee and employer contributions resulting from the employer error shall be the responsibility of the participating public employer. The participating public employer may remit total payment and the employee reimburse the participating public employer through payroll deduction over a period equivalent to the time period during which the employer error occurred.



    NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to clarify the authority of the West Virginia Consolidated Public Retirement Board to determine the participating employer contribution rate under the provisions of the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System and to remove the ten and one-half percent cap on total employer contributions paid by the county commissions and concurrent employers.


    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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