Oklahoma 2023 Regular Session

Oklahoma Senate Bill SB102 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/03/2023

                             
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023) 
 
SENATE BILL 102 	By: Garvin 
 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to the Oklahoma Police Pension and 
Retirement System; amending 11 O.S . 2021, Sections 
50-101, as amended by Section 2, Ch apter 306, O.S.L. 
2022 (11 O.S. Supp. 2022, Section 50 -101), 50-110, 
and 50-111.1, which relate to definitions, employee 
contributions, and termination of employment; 
modifying definition; increasing minimum employee 
contribution for certain members of System; 
increasing computation of certain monthly benefits ; 
and updating statutory language. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: 
SECTION 1.     AMENDATORY    11 O.S. 2021, Section 50 -101, as 
amended by Section 2, Chapter 306, O.S.L. 2022 (11 O.S. Supp. 2022, 
Section 50-101), is amended to read as follows: 
Section 50-101. As used in this article: 
1.  “System” means the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement 
System and all predecessor muni cipal Police Pension and Retirement 
Systems; 
2.  “Article” means Article 50 of this title;   
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3.  “State Board” means the Oklahoma Police P ension and 
Retirement Board; 
4.  “Fund” means the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement 
Fund; 
5.  “Officer” means any duly appointed and sworn full-time 
officer of the regular police depa rtment of a municipality whose 
duties are to preserve the public pea ce, protect life and property, 
prevent crime, serve warrants, enforce all laws and municipal 
ordinances of this state, a nd any political subdivision thereof, and 
who is authorized to bear arms in the execution of such duties; 
6.  “Member” means all eligible officers of a participating 
municipality and any person hired by a participating municipality 
who is undergoing police training to become a permanent police 
officer of the municipality. Effective July 1, 1987, a member does 
not include a “leased employee” as defined under Section 414(n)(2) 
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.  Effective July 1, 
1999, any individual who agrees with the participating municipality 
that the individual’s services are to be performed as a leased 
employee or an independent contractor shall not be a member 
regardless of any classification as a common law employee by the 
Internal Revenue Service or any other governmental agency, or any 
court of competent jurisdiction.  A member shall include eligible 
commissioned officers of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and 
Dangerous Drugs Control, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation,   
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and the Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission who elect to 
participate in the System pursuant to Sect ion 50-111.5 of this 
title; 
7.  “Normal retirement date” means the date at which the member 
is eligible to receive the unreduced payments of the m ember’s 
accrued retirement benefit.  Such date shall be the first da y of the 
month coinciding with or followin g the date the member comp letes 
twenty (20) years of credited service.  If the member’s employment 
continues past the normal retirement date of th e member, the actual 
retirement date of the member shall be the firs t day of the month 
after the member termin ates employment with more than twenty (20) 
years of credited service; 
8. “Credited service” means the period of service used to 
determine the eligibility for and the amount of benefits payable to 
a member.  Credited service shall consist of the period dur ing which 
the member participated in the System or the predecessor munic ipal 
systems as an active employee in an eligible membership 
classification, plus any service prior to the establishment of the 
predecessor municipal systems which was credited under t he 
predecessor municipal s ystems or credited service granted by the 
State Board; 
9.  “Participating municipality” means a municipality which is 
making contributions to the System on behalf of its officers.  The 
Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Danger ous Drugs Control, the   
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Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, and the A lcoholic Beverage 
Laws Enforcement Commission shall be treated in the same manner as a 
participating municipality only regarding those members who elect to 
participate in the System pu rsuant to Section 50-111.5 of this 
title; 
10.  “Permanent total disabili ty” means incapacity due to 
accidental injury or occupational disease, to earn any wages in the 
employment for which the member is physically suited and reasonably 
fitted through educa tion, training or experien ce.  Further, the 
member must be declared one hundred percent (100%) impaired as 
defined by the “American Medical Associ ation’s Guides to the 
Evaluation of Permanent Impairment” on the basis of a physical 
medical examination by a physician licensed to prac tice medicine in 
this state, as selected by th e State Board; 
11.  “Permanent partial disability” means permanent disability 
which is less than permanent total disability as defined in this 
section.  The member must be declared no greater than ninety-nine 
percent (99%) impaired as defined by the “American Medical 
Association’s Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment” on 
the basis of a physical medical examination by a physician lice nsed 
to practice medicine in this state, a s selected by the State Bo ard; 
12.  “Permanent in-line disability” means when a police officer 
serving in any capacity at a regular police department of a 
participating municipality becomes so physically or mentally   
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disabled, as determined by an independent medical examiner, 
psychiatrist, or psychologist selected by the State Board, while in, 
and in consequence of, the performance of authorizing activities 
while on duty as an officer that he or she is unable to perform the 
required duties of a police officer; 
13.  “Beneficiary” means a member’s surviving spouse or any 
surviving children, including biological and adopted c hildren, at 
the time of the member’s death.  The surviving spouse must have been 
married to the member for the thirty (30) continuous months 
immediately preceding th e member’s death, provided a survivin g 
spouse of a member who died while in, and as a conse quence of, the 
performance of the member’s duty for a participating municipality, 
shall not be subject to the thirty-month marriage requirement for 
survivor benefits.  A surviving child of a member shal l be a 
beneficiary until reach ing eighteen (18) years of age or twenty-two 
(22) years of age if the child is enrolled full time and regularly 
attending a public or private school or any institution of higher 
education.  Any child adopted by a member after the member’s 
retirement shall be a beneficiary only if the child is adopted by 
the member for the thirty (30) continuous months preceding the 
member’s death.  Any child who is adopted by a member after the 
member’s retirement and such member dies accidenta lly or as a 
consequence of the performance of the memb er’s duty as a police 
officer shall not be subject to the thirty-month adoption   
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requirement. This definition of beneficiary shall be in addition to 
any other requirement set forth in this article; 
14.  “Executive Director” means the managing officer of th e 
System employed by the State Board; 
15.  “Eligible employer” means any municipality with a municipal 
police department; 
16.  “Entry date” means the date as of whic h an eligible 
employer joins the Syst em.  The first entry date purs uant to this 
article shall be January 1, 1981; 
17.  “Final average salary” means the average paid base salary 
of the member for normally scheduled hours over the highest salaried 
thirty (30) consecutive months of the last sixt y (60) months of 
credited service.  Effective July 1, 2016, the following shall apply 
in computing final average salary: 
a. only paid base salary on which required contributions 
have been made shall be used in computing a member’s 
final average salary, 
b. for purposes of determining th e normal disability 
benefit only, final average salary shall be based on 
the member’s total service if less than thirty (30) 
months, 
c. in addition to other applicable limitations, and 
notwithstanding any other provision to th e contrary, 
for plan years beginning on or after July 1, 2002, the   
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annual compensation of each “Noneligible Member” taken 
into account under the System shall not exceed the 
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 
2001 (EGTRRA) annual compensat ion limit.  The EGTRRA 
annual compensation limit is Tw o Hundred Thousand 
Dollars ($200,000.00), as adjusted by the Commissioner 
for increases in the cost of living in accordance with 
Section 401(a)(17)(B) of the Interna l Revenue Code of 
1986, as amended.  The annual compensation limit in 
effect for a calendar year applies to any period, not 
exceeding twelve (12) months, over which compensation 
is determined (“determination period”) beginning in 
such calendar year.  If a determination period 
consists of fewer than twelve (12) months, the EGTRRA 
annual compensation limit will be multiplied by a 
fraction, the numerator of which is the number of 
months in the determination period, and the 
denominator of which is twelve (12). For purposes of 
this section, a “Noneligible Member” is any member who 
first became a member during a plan year commencing on 
or after July 1, 1996, 
d. for plan years beginning on or after July 1, 2002, any 
reference in the System to the annual compensati on 
limit under Section 401(a)(17) of the Internal Revenue   
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Code of 1986, as amended, shall m ean the EGTRRA annual 
compensation limit set forth in this provision, and 
e. effective January 1, 2008, back pay, within the 
meaning of Section 1.415(c)-2(g)(8) of the Income Tax 
Regulations, shall be t reated as paid base salary for 
the limitation year to which the back pay relates to 
the extent the back pay represents wages and 
compensation that would otherwise be included in this 
definition; 
18.  “Accrued retirement benefit” means, for benefits computed 
prior to the effective date of this act , two and one-half percent (2 
1/2%) of the member’s final average salary multiplied b y the 
member’s years of credited service not to exceed thirty (30) years. 
For a member who retires on or after the effective date of this act , 
“accrued retirement benefit ” shall mean three percent (3%) of the 
member’s final average salary multiplied by the member’s years of 
credited service not to exceed thirty (30) years ; 
19.  “Normal disability benefit” means: 
a. for benefits computed prior to the effective date of 
this act, the greater of: 
a. (1) two and one-half percent (2 1/2%) of the 
member’s final average salary multiplied by 
twenty (20) years, notwithstanding the years of 
actual credited service, or   
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b. (2) two and one-half percent (2 1/2%) of the 
member’s final average salary multiplied by the 
years of credited service of the member, not to 
exceed thirty (30) years, if the officer has mor e 
than twenty (20) years of credited service, 
b. for benefits computed on or after the effective date 
of this act, the greater of: 
(1) three percent (3%) of the member’s final average 
salary multiplied by twenty (20) years, 
notwithstanding the years of ac tual credited 
service, or 
(2) three percent (3%) of the member ’s final average 
salary multiplied by the years of credited 
service of the member, not to exceed thirty (30) 
years, if the officer has more than twenty (20) 
years of credited service; 
20.  “Limitation year” means the year used in applying the 
limitations of Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code o f 1986, as 
amended, which year shall be the calendar year; 
21.  “Paid base salary” means, effective July 1, 2016, any 
compensation described in subparagraph a of this paragraph that is 
not described in subparagraph b of this paragraph. 
a. Paid base salary shall include only:   
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(1) normal compensation paid on a regularly scheduled 
pay period including, but not limited to, regular 
pay for holidays, paid time off, vacation or 
annual leave, sick leave or compensatory time in 
lieu of overtime, any lump sum payment paid in 
lieu of a normal wage increase, provided such 
lump sum payment is retroactively applied over 
the prior twelve-month period ending with the 
payment date, compensation for bomb squad pay, 
education pay, incentive pay, K-9 pay, 
negotiation pay, shift differential, sniper pay, 
SWAT team pay, emergency response team pay, any 
other special unit pay, and any incremental 
increase in compensation which is not included by 
the employer in a member’s regular base pay for 
salary increase purposes but is paid by the 
employer to the member for group health benefits 
based on an arrangement with a par ticipating 
municipality that was in place on December 31, 
2015, so long as the arrangement continues 
uninterrupted for a member employed by a 
participating municipality on June 30, 2016, who 
has not since terminated employment and been 
rehired by such part icipating municipality,   
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(2) any amount of elective salary reduction under 
Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 
as amended, that would have been treated as paid 
base salary but for the salary deferral reduction 
agreement, 
(3) any amount of elective salary reduction not 
includable in the gross income of the member 
under Section 132(f)(4) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986, as amended, that would have been 
treated as paid base salary but for the salary 
deferral reduction agreement, 
(4) any amount of elective salary reduction under 
Section 457 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 
as amended, that would have been treated as paid 
base salary but for the salary d eferral reduction 
agreement, 
(5) any amount of elective salary reduction under 
Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986, as amended, that would have been treated as 
paid base salary but for the salary deferral 
reduction agreement, 
(6) any amount of nonelective salary reduction under 
Section 414(h) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986, as amended,   
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(7) educational allowances paid to obtain training 
certification or pursue an advanced degree, 
(8) longevity payments made to members based upon a 
standardized plan which recognizes length of 
service to the participating municipality, 
(9) paid base salary shall also include base salary, 
as described in divisions (1) through (8) of this 
subparagraph, for services, but paid by the later 
of two and one-half (2 1/2) months after a 
member’s severance from employment or the end of 
the calendar year that includes the date the 
member terminated employment, if it is a payment 
that, absent a severance from employment, would 
have been paid to the member while the mem ber 
continued in employment with the participating 
municipality, 
(10) any payments not described in divisions (1) 
through (9) of this subparagraph shall not be 
considered paid base salary if paid after 
severance from employment, even if they are paid 
by the later of two and one-half (2 1/2) months 
after the date of severance from employment o r 
the end of the calendar year that includes the 
date of severance from employment, except   
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payments to an individual who does not currently 
perform services for the par ticipating 
municipality by reason of qualified military 
service within the meaning of Se ction 414(u)(5) 
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, 
to the extent these payments do not exceed the 
amounts the individual would have received if the 
individual had continued to perform services for 
the participating municipality rather than 
entering qualified military service, 
(11) back pay, within the meaning of Section 1.415(c)-
2(g)(8) of the Income Tax Regulations, shall be 
treated as paid base salary fo r the limitation 
year to which the back pay relates to the extent 
the back pay represent s wages and compensation 
that would otherwise be included in this 
definition, and 
(12) paid base salary shall also include differential 
wage payments under Section 414( u)(12) of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. 
b. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this 
section, paid base salary shall not include any: 
(1) fringe benefits, reimbursements, or increases in 
compensation due to reimbursements to the ext ent   
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not specifically included above in subparagraph a 
of this paragraph, 
(2) incremental increase in compensation which is not 
included by the employer in a member’s regular 
base pay for salary increase purposes but is paid 
by the employer to the member fo r group health 
benefits not otherwise included above in division 
(1) of subparagraph a o f this paragraph, 
(3) insurance benefits, including any reimbursements 
thereof, or insurance proceeds of any type not 
otherwise included above in division (1) of 
subparagraph a of this paragraph, 
(4) bonuses, including signing bonuses, lump -sum 
payments or stipends made to the member not 
otherwise included above in division (1) of 
subparagraph a of this paragraph, 
(5) overtime compensation, 
(6) payments whether prior to or upon termination of 
employment for accumulated unused vacation or 
unused annual leave, accumulated unused sick 
leave, or accumulated unused paid time off or 
other unused leave, 
(7) payments made in error to a member,   
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(8) payments made by the participati ng municipality 
for services rendered by the member, which 
services are not part of the member’s job duties 
and responsibilities of his or her job position 
with the participating m unicipality, 
(9) severance pay, 
(10) unemployment payments, and 
(11) uniform and equipment allowances; and 
22.  “Actuarial equivalent” means equality in value of th e 
aggregate amounts expected to be received based on interest rate and 
mortality assumption s set by the State Board, in a manner that 
precludes employer discretion, and based upon recommendations from 
independent professional advisors, and which shall be p ublished 
annually in the actuarial report. 
SECTION 2.     AMENDATORY     11 O.S. 2021, Section 50 -110, is 
amended to read as follows: 
Section 50-110. A.  Each member in the Oklahoma Police Pension 
and Retirement System prior to the effecti ve date of this act shall 
contribute to the System a minimum of eight percent (8%) of the 
member’s actual paid base salary .  On or after the effective date of 
this act, each member shall contribute to the System a minimum of 
nine percent (9%). 
At the option of the participatin g municipality, the 
participating municipality may pay all or any part of the member ’s   
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required contribution.  The sums contributed shall be paid to th e 
System as provided in this article within ten (10) days f ollowing 
the payroll period on which the contr ibutions are based.  Amounts 
deducted from the salary of a member and not paid to the System 
after thirty (30) days from each ending payroll date shall be 
subject to a monthly late charge of one and one-half percent (1 
1/2%) of the unpaid balance to be pai d by the municipality to the 
System.  All funds received by a participating municipality for 
police retirement purposes shall be forwarded to the State Board for 
credit to the Fund. 
B. Each municipality shall pick up under the provisi ons of 
Section 414(h)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and pay the 
contribution which the member is required by law to make to the 
System for all compensation earned after December 31, 1988.  
Although the contributions so pi cked up are designated as member 
contributions, such contributions shall be treated as contributions 
being paid by the municipality in lieu of contributions by the 
member in determining tax treatme nt under the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986 and such picked up contributions shall no t be includable in 
the gross income of the member until such amounts are distributed or 
made available to the member or the beneficiary of the member.  The 
member, by the terms of this System, shall not have any option to 
choose to receive the contribution s so picked up direct ly and the   
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picked up contributions must be paid by the municipality to the 
System. 
Member contributions which are picked up shall be treated in the 
same manner and to the same extent as member contributions mad e 
prior to the date on wh ich member contributi ons were picked up by 
the municipality.  Member contributions so picked up shall be 
included in gross salary for purposes of determining benefits and 
contributions under the System. 
The municipality shall pay t he member contributions f rom the 
same source of funds used in paying salary to the member, by 
effecting an equal cash reduction in gross salary of the member. 
SECTION 3.     AMENDATORY    11 O.S. 2021, Section 50-111.1, is 
amended to read as follows: 
Section 50-111.1.  A.  A member who terminates service b efore 
normal retirement date , other than by death or disability shall, 
upon application filed with the State Board, be refunded from the 
Fund an amount equal to the accumulated contribut ions the member has 
made to the Fund, but excluding any interest or an y amount 
contributed by the municipality or state .  If a member withdraws the 
member’s accumulated contributions, such member s hall not have any 
recourse against the System for any type of additional benefits 
including, but not limited to, disability benef its.  If a member has 
completed ten (10) years of credited service at the date of   
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termination, the member may elect a vested be nefit in lieu of 
receiving the member’s accumulated contrib utions. 
If the member who has completed ten (10) or more years of 
credited service elects the vest ed benefit, the member shall be 
entitled to a monthly retirement annuity commencing on the date the 
member reaches fifty (50) years of age or the date the mem ber would 
have had twenty (20) years of credited service had the membe r’s 
employment continued uni nterrupted, whichever is later .  The annual 
amount of such retirement annuity shall be equal to two and one-half 
percent (2 1/2%) of the annualized final aver age salary multiplied 
by the number of years of credited service.  For a monthly 
retirement annuity commencing on or after the effective date of this 
act, the annual amount of such retirement annui ty shall be equal to 
three percent (3%) of the annualized fi nal average salary multi plied 
by the number of years of credited service. 
If a terminated member has elected a vested benefit and 
subsequently returns to work as a police officer of a participatin g 
municipality, their vested benefit will be set aside and p rior 
credited service will be reinstated. 
B.  If a member who terminates emplo yment and elects a vested 
benefit dies prior to being eligible to receive benefits, the 
member’s beneficiary shall be entitled to the member’s normal 
monthly accrued retirement b enefits on the date the deceased member 
would have been eligible to receive th e benefit.   
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C.  Whenever a member has terminated or hereafter terminates 
covered employment and has withdrawn or hereaf ter withdraws the 
member’s accumulated contributions and has rejoined or hereafter 
rejoins the System, the member, upon proper application and approval 
by the Board, may pay to the System the sum of the accumulated 
contributions the member has withdrawn or hereafter withdraws plus 
ten percent (10%) annual interest from the date of withdra wal and 
shall receive the same benefits as if the memb er had never withdrawn 
the contributions.  A lump-sum payment for repayment of any amounts 
received because of a membe r’s prior termination may be repaid by 
trustee-to-trustee transfers of non-Roth funds from a Section 403(b) 
annuity, an eligible Section 4 57(b) plan, and/or a Section 401(a) 
qualified plan.  Those members who at the time of termination of 
employment could not withdraw any of their accumulated contributions 
shall receive credited service f or the time employed as an officer 
prior to any such termination upon proper application and approval 
by the Board.  To receive credit for such service, all required 
contributions and interest shall be paid within ninety (90) days o f 
Board approval of the application.  The provisions of this 
subsection shall not apply to any member who is receiving benefits 
from the System as of July 1, 1987. 
D.  If an active member dies and does not leave a surviving 
beneficiary under paragraph 13 o f Section 50-101 of this title, the 
accumulated contributions made to the Syst em by the member shall be   
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paid to the member’s estate or, if properly designated by the 
member, a trust. 
 
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