HB-4766, As Passed Senate, June 14, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL No. 4766

 

May 16, 2007, Introduced by Reps. Gonzales and Cushingberry and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 

     A bill to amend 1965 PA 314, entitled

 

"Public employee retirement system investment act,"

 

by amending section 20m (MCL 38.1140m), as added by 2002 PA 728.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 20m. The governing board vested with the general

 

administration, management, and operation of a system or other

 

decision-making body that is responsible for implementation and

 

supervision of any system shall confirm in the annual actuarial

 

valuation and the summary annual report required under section

 

20h(2) that each plan under this act provides for the payment of

 

the required employer contribution as provided in this section and

 

shall confirm in the summary annual report that the system has

 


received the required employer contribution for the year covered in

 

the summary annual report. The required employer contribution is

 

the actuarially determined contribution amount. An annual required

 

employer contribution in a plan under this act shall consist of a

 

current service cost payment and a payment of at least the annual

 

accrued amortized interest on any unfunded actuarial liability and

 

the payment of the annual accrued amortized portion of the unfunded

 

principal liability. For fiscal years that begin before January 1,

 

2006, the required employer contribution shall not be determined

 

using an amortization period greater than 40 years. For Except as

 

otherwise provided in this section, for fiscal years that begin

 

after December 31, 2005, the required employer contribution shall

 

not be determined using an amortization period greater than 30

 

years. For the state employees retirement system, the public school

 

employees retirement system, and the state police retirement system

 

only, for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2006, the

 

contribution for the unfunded actuarial accrued liability shall be

 

equal to the product of the assumed real rate of investment return

 

times the unfunded actuarial accrued liability. In a plan year, any

 

current service cost payment may be offset by a credit for

 

amortization of accrued assets, if any, in excess of actuarial

 

accrued liability. A required employer contribution for a plan

 

administered under this act shall allocate the actuarial present

 

value of future plan benefits between the current service costs to

 

be paid in the future and the actuarial accrued liability. The

 

governing board vested with the general administration, management,

 

and operation of a system or other decision-making body of a system

 


shall act upon the recommendation of an actuary and the board and

 

the actuary shall take into account the standards of practice of

 

the actuarial standards board of the American academy of actuaries

 

in making the determination of the required employer contribution.