2001 House Bill 5108 ↩

Senate Roll Call 271: Passed

To extend to public employee pensions the same protection against being alienated (taken) in a bankruptcy procedures as that afforded under current law to private sector pensions. The bill also provides for a new pension fund retirement health care sub-account, which would pay for future state retiree health care benefits. This sub-fund would receive from the regular pension fund any contributions in excess of the amount deemed sufficient under actuarial and accounting standards to cover future pension expenses. In years when employee pension contributions were less than this amount, money could be transferred from the health care sub-fund to the pension fund, subject to approval by legislative appropriations committees.