EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MAT TER ADDED TO EXISTIN G LAW.
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*hb1476*
HOUSE BILL 1476
P6 2lr3290
CF SB 997
By: Delegates Mautz and Adams
Introduced and read first time: February 28, 2022
Assigned to: Rules and Executive Nominations
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
Correctional Officers’ Retirement System – Talbot County 2
FOR the purpose of requiring membership in the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System 3
for certain local detention center officers of Talbot County in the event Talbot County 4
becomes a participating governmental unit in the Correctional Officers’ Retirement 5
System; providing that certain local detention center officers who join the 6
Correctional Officers’ Retirement System and receive certain service credit shall no 7
longer be members of the Employees’ Pension System; and generally relating to 8
Talbot County’s participation in the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System. 9
BY adding to 10
Article – State Personnel and Pensions 11
Section 31–2B–08 12
Annotated Code of Maryland 13
(2015 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 14
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 15
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 16
Article – State Personnel and Pensions 17
31–2B–08. 18
(A) THIS SECTION APPLIES TO AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS A LOCAL DETENTION 19
CENTER OFFICER OF TALBOT COUNTY BEFORE THE EFF ECTIVE DATE AND WHO 20
REMAINS A LOCAL DETENTION CENTER OFFICER OF TALBOT COUNTY THROUGH 21
THE EFFECTIVE DATE . 22
(B) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY O THER PROVISION OF LA W, IF TALBOT 23
COUNTY BECOMES A PART ICIPATING GOVERNMENT AL UNIT IN THE CORRECTIONAL 24 2 HOUSE BILL 1476
OFFICERS’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM, MEMBERSHIP IN THE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS’ 1
RETIREMENT SYSTEM IS MANDATORY F OR AN INDIVIDUAL DES CRIBED UNDER 2
SUBSECTION (A) OF THIS SECTION. 3
(C) IF TALBOT COUNTY COMMENCES PART ICIPATION IN THE 4
CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM IN ACCORDANCE WITH 5
SUBSECTION (B) OF THIS SECTION, AN INDIVIDUAL DESCRI BED UNDER SUBSECTION 6
(A) OF THIS SECTION IS E NTITLED TO ELIGIBILI TY SERVICE AND CREDI TABLE 7
SERVICE IN THE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM FOR 8
EMPLOYMENT WITH TALBOT COUNTY BEFORE THE EFF ECTIVE DATE. 9
(D) ON JOINING THE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM 10
AND RECEIVING SERVIC E CREDIT AS PROVIDED UNDER SUBSECTION (C) OF THIS 11
SECTION, AN INDIVIDUAL DESCRI BED UNDER SUBSECTION (A) OF THIS SECTION 12
SHALL: 13
(1) NO LONGER BE A MEMBE R OF THE EMPLOYEES’ PENSION 14
SYSTEM; AND 15
(2) HAVE NO FURTHER RIGH TS TO ANY BENEFIT IN THE EMPLOYEES’ 16
PENSION SYSTEM. 17
(E) THE TRANSFER OF CREDI TABLE SERVICE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL 18
DESCRIBED IN SUBSECT ION (A) OF THIS SECTION WHO IS A MEMBER OF THE 19
EMPLOYEES’ PENSION SYSTEM THROUGH THE EF FECTIVE DATE, AND WHO 20
TRANSFERS TO THE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM UNDER THIS 21
SECTION, IS NOT GOVERNED BY TITLE 37 OF THIS ARTICLE. 22
(F) IF TALBOT COUNTY BECOMES A PART ICIPATING GOVERNMENT AL UNIT 23
IN THE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM, § 31–2B–05(C) OF THIS 24
SUBTITLE SHALL GOVER N THE TRANSFER AND C REDITING OF ASSETS O N THE 25
EFFECTIVE DATE . 26
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 27
1, 2022. 28