HI HB214

Allows retired state employees to return to work without losing retirement benefits or re-enrolling in the Employees' Retirement System for positions in labor shortage areas, difficult-to-fill roles, or succession planning needs

Creates new exemption categories for retirants employed as law enforcement officers stationed at public schools as resource officers (Department of Law Enforcement positions)

Permits retirants to work as investigators for the Department of the Attorney General without benefit interruption if the position is identified as labor shortage or difficult-to-fill

Allows retirants to fill management positions excluded from collective bargaining, with reemployment terms requiring approval from the director of human resources development for extensions beyond an unspecified number of years

Requires employing departments to contribute to the pension accumulation fund to cover unfunded actuarial liability, and mandates annual legislative reports detailing retirant employment under these provisions