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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Seventh Legislature, First Regular Session
FACT SHEET FOR S.B. 1287
PSPRS; part-time employment
Purpose
Allows part-time municipal police officers, state highway patrol officers and county
sheriffs and deputies who meet specified requirements to participate in the Public Safety Personnel
Retirement System (PSPRS) and receive credited service for the part time service, if the employer
has chosen to allow part-time employees to participate.
Background
PSPRS provides a uniform, consistent and equitable statewide retirement program for
Arizona’s municipal firefighters and police, highway patrol and other public safety personnel.
Municipal police officers, state highway patrol officers and county sheriffs and deputies who are
certified peace officers are eligible to participate in PSPRS if the employee’s customary
employment is at least 40 hours per week for more than six months in a calendar year and the
employee is regularly assigned to hazardous duties.
Retirement benefits are determined by member salaries and credited service during
employment. Credited service means the member's total period of service before the member's
effective date of participation, plus those compensated periods of service thereafter for which the
member made contributions to the PSPRS Fund (A.R.S. §§ 38-841 and 38-842).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this
legislation.
Provisions
1. Includes, in the definition of a PSPRS member, any part-time employee whose employer has
chosen to allow part-time employees to participate in PSPRS and to whom all the following
apply:
a) the member is hired as a municipal police officer, state highway patrol officer or county
sheriff or deputy and is also a certified peace officer;
b) the member has at least five years of credited service in PSPRS or the PSPRS Defined
Contribution Plan before being hired as a part-time employee; and
c) the member is engaged to work between 20 hours and 30 hours per week, as determined
by the employer.
2. Includes, in the definition of credited service, those compensated periods of a member's part
time service, calculated on a pro rata basis, during which the member made contributions to
the PSPRS Fund. FACT SHEET
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3. Makes conforming changes.
4. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Research
February 12, 2025
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