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House Bill 2017 History
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H. B. 2017
(By Delegates Pino and R. M. Thompson)
[Introduced February 9, 2005; referred to the
Committee on Constitutional Revision, then the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §18-7A-26t, relating
to increasing supplemental benefits to certain teacher
retirement annuitants.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended
by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-7A-26t, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 7A. STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM.
§18-7A-26t.
Supplemental benefits for certain annuitants.
As an additional supplement to other retirement allowances
provided, each annuitant who is receiving a disability annuity and
has been retired for at least five years, or is receiving a
retirement annuity and is at least sixty years of age and has been
retired for at least five years, shall receive beginning on the first day of July, two thousand five, and each year thereafter, a
supplemental benefit as follows:
An annual cost-of-living supplement which is equal to the
percentage increase in the consumer price index as published by the
United States Department of Labor or three percent, whichever is
less, multiplied by the first eighteen thousand dollars of the
retiree's annual annuity.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide a cost-of-living
increase to certain annuitants under the teachers' retirement
system. The supplement is equal to the percentage increase in the
consumer price index or three percent, whichever is less,
multiplied by the first eighteen thousand dollars of the retiree's
annual annuity.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.
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