House Bill 722 Summary

• Establishes a medical board of three physicians to replace the single medical director for conducting medical examinations and evaluating disability retirement applications for police officers.

• Allows members with five or more years of creditable service (rather than ten years) to qualify for non-duty disability retirement once the police retirement system achieves an 80% funded ratio.

• Changes duty disability retirement requirements to specify that members must be unable to perform "full and unrestricted duties" of a police officer and clarifies that inability means inability to perform all essential job functions as established by the board of police commissioners.

• Modifies the definition of "earnable compensation" to reference salary established under section 84.160 and removes reference to a specific salary matrix.

• Adds "medical board" as a defined term and renumbers subsequent definitions in the police retirement system statutes.