HB 71 — RSA, full-time emergency medical services technicians and paramedics allowed to purchase hazardous duty time for prior eligible service the ERS in same manner as firefighters, law enforcement officers, and correctional officers, Tier I

HB71 ENGROSSEDENROLLED HB71 MVZIHW1-2MVZIHW1-3 By Representative Clouse RFD:

30-Jan-24 Page 0 HB71 EngrossedEnrolled 2Enrolled, 4An AAct, BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 9 Relating to the Retirement Systems of Alabama;

For Page 1 HB71 Engrossed the purposes of this section, the term also includes the Commissioner of Corrections, as defined in Section 14-1-1.3, and a deputy commissioner of corrections, as defined in Section 14-1-1.5, who has earned and maintains Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission certification as a correctional officer or law enforcement officer.

Full-time Page 1 HB71 Enrolled emergency medical services personnel employed by a local unit of the Employees' Retirement System under Section 36-27-6, who are certified as emergency medical services personnel by the State Board of Health.

(b)(1) Any firefighter, law enforcement officer, or Page 2 HB71 Engrossed correctional officer, or other emergency medical services personnel covered under the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama or the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama as a Tier I plan member, upon attainment of the requisite years of creditable service or who otherwise qualifies for service or disability retirement, shall be awarded one year of hazardous duty time for every five years of service as a firefighter, a Page 2 HB71 Enrolled law enforcement officer, or a correctional officer, or other emergency medical services personnel provided that the individual has made the additional contribution provided in subdivision (2) or paid the additional contribution required in subsection (c) for each year of service used in determining hazardous duty time for the individual.

For all pay dates beginning on or after October Page 3 HB71 Engrossed 1, 2012, each active employee who is a Tier I plan member and who is a firefighter, law enforcement officer, or correctional officer, as defined in subsection (a), except those employees participating pursuant to Section 36-27-6, shall contribute to the Teachers' or Employees' Retirement System of Alabama eight and one-half percent (8.5%) of his or her earnable compensation.

Any employer participating under Section Page 3 HB71 Enrolled 36-27-6, by adoption of a resolution, may elect for the increases in employee contributions provided by Act 2011-676 to be withheld from the earnable compensation of employees of 95 the employer.

Six percent of their earnable compensation to the 95 Employees' Retirement System of Alabama if their employer has not elected to increase employee contributions as provided by Act 2011-676.

(c) Any member of the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama or the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama eligible under subsection (b) may receive credit for his or her eligible prior service provided the member pays to the Page 4 HB71 Engrossed Secretary-Treasurer of the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama or the Secretary-Treasurer of the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama one percent (1%) of his or her current annual earnable compensation or previous year's annual earnable compensation, whichever is higher, for each year of claimed credit.

The member may purchase his or her claimed credit in increments of five years, unless the total service Page 4 HB71 Enrolled credit is less than five years, in which case the service shall be purchased in its entirety.

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amendment Read for the third time and passed ................22-Feb-24 as amended Yeas 100 Nays 0 Abstains 1 John Treadwell Clerk Senate 16-Apr-24 Passed Page 6