HOUSE BILL No. 5692

 

December 10, 2009, Introduced by Rep. Dillon and referred to the Committee on Public Employee Health Care Reform.

 

     A bill to amend 1927 PA 339, entitled

 

"An act to authorize the establishment of a system of retiring

allowances for employes of public libraries now existing or which

may hereafter be established in incorporated cities of 250,000

population or more,"

 

by amending section 2 (MCL 38.702).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 2. (1) It shall be the duty of said the library board

 

when it that desires to establish a retirement system of retiring

 

allowances, to apply to the local legislative body and to submit to

 

said the local legislative body for its approval and adoption a

 

detailed plan for such the retirement system, which shall be based

 

upon the following provisions and conditions:

 

     (a) It shall enumerate the classes of employes employees to be

 

included in said the retirement system. ;

 


     (b) It shall fix the amount of the annual retiring retirement

 

allowance, the number of years of service necessary to entitle an

 

employe employee to a retiring retirement allowance, the age at

 

which an employe employee may be retired, the nature and extent of

 

the physical or mental disability which shall entitle an employe

 

employee to retire before reaching the age of retirement, and the

 

conditions upon which the age of retirement may be anticipated. ;

 

     (c) It shall provide for a body to be known as the retiring

 

retirement fund trustees, which shall consist of 5 members. Two

 

members shall be elected by the staff; 2 members shall be appointed

 

by said the local legislative body; and the terms of office of said

 

the members shall be 4 years, except that when the system is first

 

put into effect, the terms of office shall be so fixed so that but

 

1 member's term shall expire each year. The fifth member shall be,

 

ex-officio, the presiding officer of the said library board. Said

 

The trustees shall have charge of said retiring the retirement

 

allowance fund and shall invest the same retirement allowance fund

 

only in such securities as that are legal for savings banks. Said

 

The trustees shall adopt such any rules and by-laws as bylaws that

 

may be necessary , and not inconsistent with the state constitution

 

and of 1963, laws of this state, and the provisions of this act. ;

 

     (d) There shall be attached to such the system as may be

 

recommended, the certificate of a recognized and competent actuary

 

stating that the system is actuarially sound, and the system shall

 

provide for annual reports and valuations by such the actuary to

 

determine whether the fund is on a sound financial and actuarial

 

basis.

 


     (2) If a recipient of a retirement allowance under this act

 

also receives retirement health benefits, then coverage provided

 

and plans authorized under this act shall be provided and

 

authorized in accordance with the Michigan health benefits program

 

act. Coverage provided and plans authorized in accordance with the

 

Michigan health benefits program act shall be subject to section 21

 

of the act.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No. ____ or House Bill No. 5345(request no.

 

03986'09) of the 95th Legislature is enacted into law.