HB 5671 Summary

• Amends the county employees' retirement system statute to add restrictions on service credit purchases and new benefit additions to county pension plans.

• Prohibits county boards from crediting employees for purchased service unless that purchased service is followed by at least 5 years of actual county employment.

• Requires county boards to obtain board of trustees approval, maintain current employer/member contribution payments, and achieve 100% plan funding before adding any new benefits to established retirement plans.

• Modifies language throughout the statute by replacing "pursuant to" with "under" for grammatical consistency.

• Mandates that county boards establish written policies to uniformly apply retirement plan provisions to all members.