Alabama 2022 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB210 Compare Versions

Only one version of the bill is available at this time.

Old	New	Differences
1	1	1 SB210
2	2	2 217098-1
3	3	3 By Senator Marsh
4	4	4 RFD: Finance and Taxation Education
5	5	5 First Read: 10-FEB-22
6	6
7	7	Page 0 1 217098-1:n:02/10/2022:KMS/cr LSA2022-540
8	8	2
9	9	3
10	10	4
11	11	5
12	12	6
13	13	7
14	14	8 SYNOPSIS: This bill would prohibit future retirees
15	15	9 drawing a benefit from a retirement plan within the
16	16	10 Retirement Systems of Alabama from also accruing a
17	17	11 benefit from another retirement plan within the
18	18	12 Retirement Systems of Alabama for which they
19	19	13 participated.
20	20	14
21	21	15 A BILL
22	22	16 TO BE ENTITLED
23	23	17 AN ACT
24	24	18
25	25	19 To amend Section 12-1-15, Code of Alabama 1975, to
26	26	20 prohibit future retirees drawing a benefit from a retirement
27	27	21 plan within the Retirement Systems of Alabama from also
28	28	22 accruing a benefit from another retirement plan within the
29	29	23 system for which they participated.
30	30	24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
31	31	25 Section 1. Section 12-1-15 of the Code of Alabama
32	32	26 1975, is amended to read as follows:
33	33	27 "§12-1-15.
34	34	Page 1 1 "(a) Any justice, judge, officer, official, or
35	35	2 employee of the judicial branch of government, including
36	36	3 retired and supernumerary justices, judges, or employees,
37	37	4 other than probate and municipal court judges and employees,
38	38	5 shall be entitled to any and all employee benefits to which
39	39	6 other state employees, officers, or officials on active duty
40	40	7 status are entitled, including, but not limited to, group
41	41	8 hospital, medical and surgical insurance, regardless of
42	42	9 whether such the officer, official, or employee is receiving
43	43	10 his or her compensation from grant funds or otherwise.
44	44	11 "(b) All supernumerary justices and judges and
45	45	12 retired justices and judges shall fall within the retirement
46	46	13 category and there shall be no differences between the same in
47	47	14 regard to social security, tax benefits or advantages, and
48	48	15 employee benefits, and uniformity of treatment shall be given
49	49	16 and accorded unless statutes specifically otherwise provide.
50	50	17 "(c) Any justice or judge who is eligible or who
51	51	18 will become eligible in the future for supernumerary benefits
52	52	19 or retirement benefits shall not forfeit any right by failing
53	53	20 to apply for such status at the time that he or she left or
54	54	21 leaves active state service but shall be entitled to all such
55	55	22 rights whenever he applies for the same.
56	56	23 "(d) With the exception of any individual drawing a
57	57	24 retirement allowance from the Teachers' Retirement System,
58	58	25 Employees' Retirement System, or Judicial Retirement Fund on
59	59	26 the effective date of the act adding this subsection:
60	60	Page 2 1 "(1) No individual retired under the Judicial
61	61	2 Retirement Fund may accrue membership service in the Teachers'
62	62	3 Retirement System, Employees' Retirement System, or the
63	63	4 Judicial Retirement Fund, including the Judges' and Clerks'
64	64	5 Plan and the District Attorneys' Plan, while drawing his or
65	65	6 her retirement allowance from the Judicial Retirement Fund.
66	66	7 "(2) No individual retired under the Teachers'
67	67	8 Retirement System or the Employees' Retirement System may
68	68	9 accrue membership service in the Judicial Retirement Fund,
69	69	10 including the Judges' and Clerks' Plan and the District
70	70	11 Attorneys' Plan, while drawing a retirement allowance from the
71	71	12 Teachers' Retirement System, Employees' Retirement System, or
72	72	13 the Judicial Retirement Fund."
73	73	14 Section 2. This act shall become effective on the
74	74	15 first day of the third month following its passage and
75	75	16 approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.
76	76	Page 3