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WEST virginia Legislature

2017 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 3095

By Delegate Espinosa

[Introduced March 14, 2017; Referred
to the Committee on Education.]

A BILL to amend §18-7A-13a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to allowing retired teachers to be employed by a higher education institution, the Higher Education Policy Commission or the council for community and technical college education without forfeiting their retirement.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:


That §18-7A-13a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted as follows:

ARTICLE 7A. STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM.


§18-7A-13a. Resumption of service by retired teachers.

(a) For the purpose of this section, reemployment of a former or retired teacher as a teacher shall in no way does not impair the teacher's eligibility for a prior service pension or any other benefit provided by this article.

(b) Retired teachers who qualified for an annuity because of age or service may not receive prior service allowance from the retirement board when employed as a teacher and when regularly employed by the State of West Virginia. The payment of the allowance shall be discontinued on the first day of the month within which such employment begins and shall be resumed on the first day of the month succeeding the month within which such employment ceases. The annuity paid the teacher on first retirement resulting from the Teachers' Accumulation Fund and the Employers' Accumulation Fund shall continue throughout the governmental service and thereafter according to the option selected by the teacher upon first retirement.

(c) Retired teachers who qualified for an annuity because of disability shall receive no further retirement payments if the retirement board finds that the disability of the teacher no longer exists; payment shall be discontinued on the first day of the month within which the finding is made. If the retired teacher returns to service as a teacher, he or she shall contribute to the Teachers' Accumulation Fund as a member of the system. His or her prior service eligibility, if any, shall not be impaired because of his or her disability retirement. His or her accumulated contributions which were transferred to the benefit fund upon his or her retirement shall be returned to his or her individual account in the Teachers' Accumulation Fund, minus retirement payments received which were not supported by such contributions and interest. Upon subsequent retirement, he or she shall receive credit for all of his or her contributory experience, anything to the contrary in this article notwithstanding.

(d) Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, a person who retires under the system provided by this article­, may subsequently become six months prior to being employed on either a full-time basis, part-time basis or contract basis by any state institution of higher education, the Higher Education Policy Commission or the council for community and technical college education without any loss of retirement annuity or retirement benefits: if the person's retirement commences between the effective date of the enactment of this section in 2002 and December 31, 2002 Provided, That the person shall is not be eligible to participate in any other state retirement system provided by this code except that system set out in section five, article seven, chapter eighteen-b of this code.

(e) The retirement board is herewith authorized to may require of the retired teachers and their employers such reports as it deems considers necessary to effectuate the provisions of this section.


 

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow retired teachers to be employed by a higher education institution, the Higher Education Policy Commission or the Council for Community and Technical College Education without forfeiting their retirement.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.

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