Senate Bill No. 383
(By Senator Browning)
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[Introduced February 25, 2009; referred to the Committee on
Education; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §18-7A-38 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to the State Teachers Retirement
System; and calculating the maximum number of days a
nonteaching member of the system, who is a retired coach, may
work.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §18-7A-38 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-38. Maximum number of days a retired teacher may accept
employment; calculating days worked for retirants
engaged in substitute teaching.
(a) The Legislature finds that:
(1) The Consolidated Public Retirement Board has determined
that retired substitute teachers should not perform substitute teaching without limit;
(2) The Consolidated Public Retirement Board has established,
by rule, a maximum number of days in which a retired teacher may
accept employment prior to having his or her retirement benefit
reduced; and
(3) There have been inconsistencies in the manner in which
county boards calculate the maximum number of days established by
rule.
(b) The Consolidated Public Retirement Board may not set forth
in rule a maximum number of days in which a retired teacher may
accept employment prior to having his or her retirement benefit
reduced that is less than one hundred forty days:
Provided, That
a nonteaching member of the system, who is a retired coach, may
work at coaching at least three hours a night, without this time
being counted as a workday in calculating the one hundred forty day
maximum a year.
(c) For the purpose of calculating whether a retired
substitute teacher has exceeded the maximum number of days in which
a substitute teacher may accept employment without incurring a
reduction in his or her retirement benefit, the number of days
worked shall be determined by:
(1) Totaling the number of hours worked; and
(2) Dividing by the standard number of hours that a full-time
teacher works per day.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to exclude in calculating
the maximum number of days a nonteaching member of the system, who
is a retired coach, may work, if the member coaches at least three
hours a night.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.