HB 214 Summary

• Allows retirants from the Employees' Retirement System to be reemployed without reenrollment and without loss or interruption of benefits in eight specified categories of positions.

• Expands reemployment eligibility to include law enforcement officers stationed as school resource officers at public schools and investigators at the Department of the Attorney General, subject to a six-month prior employment break requirement.

• Permits reemployment in management positions excluded from collective bargaining and identified as labor shortage, difficult-to-fill, or needed for succession planning positions, limited to a specified term unless extended by the director of human resources development.

• Requires reemploying departments to contribute to the pension accumulation fund the required percentage of rehired retirants' compensation to amortize the system's unfunded actuarial accrued liability for all new employment categories.

• Mandates annual reporting to the Legislature by state and county human resources offices detailing the employment of retirants under the newly expanded categories, including number and position information.