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H. B. 3242


(By Delegates Walker and D. Poling)

[Introduced March 19, 2009; referred to the

Committee on Pensions and Retirement then Finance.]





A BILL to amend and reenact §18-7D-6 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to changing the buyback calculation in the Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System to the State Teachers Retirement System voluntary transfer.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That §18-7D-6 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 7D. VOLUNTARY TRANSFER FROM TEACHERS' DEFINED CONTRIBUTION RETIREMENT SYSTEM TO STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

§18-7D-6. Service credit in State Teachers Retirement System following transfer; conversion of assets; adjustments.

(a) Any member who has affirmatively elected to transfer to the State Teachers Retirement System within the period provided in section seven of this article whose assets have been transferred from the Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System to the State Teachers Retirement System pursuant to the provisions of this article and who has not made any withdrawals or cash-outs from his or her assets is, depending upon the percentage of actively contributing members affirmatively electing to transfer, entitled to service credit in the State Teachers Retirement System in accordance with the provisions of subsections (c) or (d) of this section.
(b) Any such member who has made withdrawals or cash-outs will receive service credit based upon the amounts transferred. The board shall make the appropriate adjustment to the service credit the member will receive.
(c) If at least sixty-five percent but less than seventy-five percent of actively contributing members of the Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System affirmatively elect to transfer to the State Teachers Retirement System within the period provided in section seven of this article, for any member of the Defined Contribution Retirement System who elects to transfer to the State Teachers Retirement System, his or her service credit in the State Teachers Retirement System is determined as follows:
(1) For any member affirmatively electing to transfer, the member's State Teachers Retirement System credit shall be seventy-five percent of the member's Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System service credit, less any service previously withdrawn by the member or due to a qualified domestic relations order and not repaid;
(2) To receive full credit in the State Teachers Retirement System for service in the Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System for which assets are transferred, transferring members shall have the option to pay into the State Teachers Retirement System the Actuarial Reserve, as defined in section two of this article, by no later than June 30, 2009.
(d) If at least seventy-five percent of actively contributing members of the Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System affirmatively elect to transfer to the State Teachers Retirement System within the period provided in section seven of this article, for any member of the Defined Contribution Retirement System who elects to transfer to the State Teachers Retirement System, his or her service credit in the State Teachers Retirement System is determined as follows:
(1) For any member affirmatively electing to transfer, the member's State Teachers Retirement System credit shall be seventy-five percent of the member's Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System service credit , less any service previously withdrawn by the member or due to a qualified domestic relations order and not repaid;
(2) To receive full credit in the State Teachers Retirement System for service in the Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System for which assets are transferred, members who affirmatively elected to transfer shall pay into the State Teachers Retirement System a one and one-half percent contribution by no later than June 30, 2009. This contribution shall be calculated as one and one-half percent of the member's estimated total earnings for which assets are transferred, plus interest of four percent per annum accumulated from the date of the member's initial participation in the Defined Contribution Retirement System.
(A) For a member contributing to the Defined Contribution Retirement System at any time during the two thousand eight fiscal year and commencing membership in the State Teachers Retirement System on the first day of July, two thousand eight, or the first day of August, two thousand eight, as the case may be:
(i) The estimated total earnings shall be calculated based on the member's salary and the member's age nearest birthday on the thirtieth day of June, two thousand eight;
(ii) This calculation shall apply both an annual backward salary scale from that date for prior years' salaries and a forward salary scale for the salary for the two thousand eight fiscal year.
(B) The calculations in paragraph (A) of this subdivision are based upon the salary scale assumption applied in the West Virginia Teachers Retirement System Actuarial Valuation as of the first day of July, two thousand seven, prepared for the Consolidated Public Retirement Board. This salary scale shall be applied regardless of breaks in service.
(e) All service previously transferred from the State Teachers Retirement System to the Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System is considered Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System service for the purposes of this article.
(f) Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, the retirement of a member who becomes eligible to retire after the member's assets are transferred to the State Teachers Retirement System pursuant to the provisions of this article may not commence prior to September 1, 2008: Provided, That the Consolidated Public Retirement Board may not retire any member who is eligible to retire during the school calendar year beginning 2008 during the school calendar year 2008 unless the member has provided a written notice to his or her county board of education by July 1, 2008, of his or her intent to retire.



NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to change the buyback calculation in the Teachers' Defined Contribution Retirement System to the State Teachers Retirement System voluntary transfer.

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