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Senate Bill No. 252

(By Senators Hunter, Redd, Ross, Mitchell, Rowe and Kessler)

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[Introduced February 28, 2001; referred to the Committee on Pensions; and then to the Committee on Finance.]

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A BILL to amend article seven-a, chapter eighteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section twenty-six-s, relating to increasing supplemental benefits to certain teacher retirement annuitants.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article seven-a, chapter eighteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section twenty-six-s, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 7A. STATE TEACHERS' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.
§18-7A-26s. Supplemental benefits for certain annuitants.
(a) As an additional supplement to other retirement allowances provided, each annuitant meeting the requirements set forth in subsection (b) of this section, who is receiving a retirement annuity of eighteen thousand dollars or less annually shall receive the following supplemental benefit beginning on the first day of July, two thousand one, and each year thereafter: An annual cost-of-living supplement which is equal to the annual increase in the consumer price index as published by the United States department of labor. The cost-of-living supplement may not cause the annual retirement annuity of an annuitant to exceed eighteen thousand dollars, although an annuitant may receive that portion of the supplement that will maintain an annual annuity of eighteen thousand dollars.
(b) An annuitant is eligible to receive the cost-of-living supplement set forth in subsection (a) of this section if:
(1) The annuitant is sixty-two years of age or older and has been retired at least five years; or
(2) The annuitant is receiving a disability annuity and has been retired at least five years.
(c) Beginning on the first day of July, two thousand two, and each year thereafter, the amount of the supplement paid in the preceding year shall be added to the annuitant's base for the purpose of computing the supplement for the current year, so long as the supplement does not cause the annual retirement annuity of an annuitant to exceed eighteen thousand dollars.



NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide a cost-of-living allowance to certain annuitants under the teachers' retirement system.

This section is new: therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.


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