2023 House Bill 4305

Retirement: public school employees; employment of certain retired coaches; modify waiting period.

A bill to amend 1980 PA 300, entitled “The public school employees retirement act of 1979,” by amending section 61 (MCL 38.1361), as amended by 2022 PA 184.

Official record

AI Analysis – Experimental

This bill stipulates that retirees will forfeit their retirement allowance and healthcare benefits subsidy if they are re-employed at a reporting unit, except under specific conditions such as a bona fide termination of employment, earning under $10,000 annually as an interscholastic athletics coach or sports official, and having been retired for at least nine months.

Introduced in the House

March 21, 2023

Introduced by Rep. Will Snyder (D-87) and 19 co-sponsors

Co-sponsored by Reps. John Fitzgerald (D-83), Denise Mentzer (D-61), Tullio Liberati (D-2), Christine Morse (D-40), Mike McFall (D-8), Carrie Rheingans (D-47), Erin Byrnes (D-15), Pat Outman (R-91), Jim Haadsma (D-44), Rachel Hood (D-81), Veronica Paiz (D-11), Penelope Tsernoglou (D-75), Noah Arbit (D-20), Tyrone Carter (D-1), Carol Glanville (D-84), Phil Green (R-67), Stephanie Young (D-16), Kristian Grant (D-82) and Tom Kunse (R-100)

Referred to the Committee on Education