SB724 H FIN AMT

Chakmakian 3260

The Committee on Finance moves to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Comm. Sub. for S. B. 724 – “A BILL to amend and reenact §16-5V-2 and §16-5V-6f of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend the code by adding a new section, designated §16-5V-6g, relating to participation in the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System; removing the requirement that home confinement officers be certified as law-enforcement officers to participate in the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System; defining accrued benefit to include service credit of certain emergency medical services officers and home confinement officers; providing for emergency medical services officers currently participating in the Public Employees Retirement System to elect to begin participating in the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System; providing for process and timing of emergency medical services officer’s election to participate in the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System; allowing qualified years of service of certain emergency medical services officers’ assets to transfer to the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System from the Public Employees Retirement System; and extending dates relating to eligible home confinement officers’ participation election.”