HB4043 H P&R AM 2-6

The Committee on Pensions and Retirement moves to amend the bill on page seventeen, subsection (d), line 16, after the word "provision" and the period by inserting a new subsection, designated as subsection(e), to read as follows:
"(e) Any person who, before the effective date of this article, was elected sheriff of a county of West Virginia, and who, prior to being elected sheriff, was a deputy sheriff, and who, while serving as a deputy sheriff and while performing law enforcement functions, suffered an injury which caused him or her to be disabled within the meaning of this chapter, with credited service under the public employees retirement system, with at least sixteen of those years having been earned as combined service as a deputy sheriff and a sheriff, may elect to become a member of this plan by paying the amounts required by section seven (§7-14D-7) of this article. Upon such election, service shall be transferred from the Public Employees Retirement System pursuant to section eight (§7-14D-8) of this article: Provided, That a person's service as a sheriff shall be treated as covered service under this article, and that person is not entitled to any credit for that service as a sheriff or deputy sheriff under any other retirement system of this state. A person making the election provided in this subsection shall do so within thirty days of taking office as a sheriff or within thirty days of the effective date of this provision"