HOUSE BILL No. 5468


     February 29, 2000, Introduced by Reps. Vander Roest, Scranton, Jelinek, Julian, Caul, Gosselin, Ehardt, Bishop, Mortimer,
Garcia, Middaugh, Geiger, Mead, Birkholz, Koetje, Tabor and DeHart and referred to the Committee on Senior Health, Security and
Retirement.


        A bill to amend 1980 PA 300, entitled

   "The public school employees retirement act of 1979,"

   by amending section 5 (MCL 38.1305), as amended by 1998 PA 123.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

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           Sec. 5.  (1) "Member" means a public school employee, except

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      that member does not include any of the following:

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           (a) A person enrolled in a neighborhood youth corps program

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      operated with funds from the federal office of economic opportu-

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      nity or a person enrolled in a comparable youth training program

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      designed to prevent high school dropouts and rehabilitate high

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      school dropouts operated by an intermediate school district.

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           (b) A person enrolled in a transitional public employment

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      program and employed by a reporting unit.

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           (c) A person employed by a reporting unit while enrolled as

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      a full-time student in that same reporting unit.


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           (d) A person who elects to participate in the optional

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      retirement program under the optional retirement act of 1967,

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      1967 PA 156, MCL 38.381 to 38.388.

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           (e) A retirant of this retirement system.

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           (f) A person, not regularly employed by a reporting unit,

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      who is employed by a reporting unit through a summer youth

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      employment program established pursuant to the Michigan youth

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      corps act, 1983 PA 69, MCL 409.221 to 409.229.

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           (g) A person, not regularly employed by a reporting unit,

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      who is employed by a reporting unit to administer a program

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      described in subdivision (f), (h), (i), (j), or (k).

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           (h) After September 30, 1983, a person, not regularly

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      employed by a reporting unit, who is employed by a reporting unit

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      through participation in a program established pursuant to the

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      job training partnership act, Public Law 97-300, 96 Stat. 1322.

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           (i) A person, not regularly employed by a reporting unit,

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      who is employed by a reporting unit through participation in a

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      program established pursuant to the Michigan opportunity and

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      skills training program, first established under sections 12 to

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      23 of 1983 PA 259.

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           (j) A person, not regularly employed by a reporting unit,

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      who is employed by a reporting unit through participation in a

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      program established pursuant to the Michigan community service

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      corps program, first established under sections 25 to 35 of 1983

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      PA 259.

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           (k) A person, not regularly employed by a reporting unit,

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      who is employed by a reporting unit through participation in a



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      program established pursuant to the older American community

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      service employment program under the older American community

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      service employment act, title V of the older Americans act of

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      1965, Public Law 89-73, 42 U.S.C. 3056 to 3056i.

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           (l) A person, not regularly employed by a reporting unit,

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      who is employed by a reporting unit in a temporary, intermittent,

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      or irregular seasonal or athletic position and who is under the

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      age of 19 years.

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           (M) A PERSON, NOT REGULARLY EMPLOYED BY A REPORTING UNIT,

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      WHO IS EMPLOYED BY A REPORTING UNIT IN A TEMPORARY POSITION TO

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      ASSIST IN THE CONDUCT OF A SCHOOL ELECTION.

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           (2) "Membership service" means service performed after

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      June 30, 1945.

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           (3) "Noncontributory plan" means the plan which began

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      between July 1, 1974 and July 1, 1977, in which the reporting

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      unit elected to discontinue withholding contributions from

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      employees' compensation.

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           (4) "Noncontributory service" means credited service

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      rendered under the noncontributory plan.

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           (5) "Nonteacher" means a person employed by a reporting unit

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      who is not a teacher as defined in section 8(4).















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