Bill Summary: HB-5305

• Amends sections 12a, 12d, and 12e of the County Boards of Commissioners Act (1851 PA 156) to subject county employee pension and retirement benefits to the Protecting Local Government Retirement and Benefits Act.

• Clarifies language throughout by replacing archaic terms like "shall" with "must," "funds" with "money," and updating various grammatical constructions to reflect modern legislative drafting standards.

• Adds new subsection (34) to section 12a explicitly stating that all pension or retirement benefits under the section are subject to the Protecting Local Government Retirement and Benefits Act.

• Makes conforming changes to sections 12d and 12e to add introductory language making those provisions subject to the Protecting Local Government Retirement and Benefits Act.

• Contains an enacting section conditioning this bill's effectiveness on the passage of House Bill 5298, creating a tie-bar relationship between the two bills.