MS HB855

Retired Highway Safety Patrol officers may be reemployed after retirement and continue receiving retirement allowances if they have been withdrawn from service for at least 90 consecutive days.

Reemployed retired officers must work on traffic law enforcement duties on a regular basis, limited to no more than half the normal working days or hours in a fiscal year, and receive no more than half the applicable salary for the position.

The rank of a reemployed retired officer shall be sergeant first class or their retirement rank, whichever is lower, and they must comply with mandatory retirement age requirements.

The Department of Public Safety must notify the retirement system executive director within five days of employment or termination and pay employer contributions equal to the actuarial liability created by reemploying retired officers.

Reemployed retired officers do not contribute to the retirement system and earn no additional creditable service during their period of reemployment; this provision expires July 1, 2013.