HOUSE BILL No. 4159

 

January 27, 2011, Introduced by Reps. Lund, Stamas, MacMaster, Johnson, Olson, Franz, LaFontaine, Genetski, Scott, Wayne Schmidt, Agema, Somerville, Knollenberg, Ouimet, Lori, Shirkey, Poleski, Forlini, Hughes, McMillin, Haveman, Walsh, Damrow, Bumstead, Gilbert, Potvin, Hooker, Yonker, Farrington, Price, Huuki, Tyler, Crawford, Cotter, Horn, Haines, Lyons and Moss and referred to the Committee on Oversight, Reform, and Ethics.

 

     A bill to amend 1943 PA 240, entitled

 

"State employees' retirement act,"

 

by amending section 35 (MCL 38.35), as added by 2010 PA 185.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 35. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section,

 

beginning with the first pay date after November 1, 2010, and

 

ending September 30, 2013, each member and each qualified

 

participant shall contribute an amount equal to 3.0% of the

 

member's or qualified participant's compensation to the appropriate

 

funding account established under the public employee retirement

 

health care funding act, 2010 PA 77, MCL 38.2731 to 38.2747. The

 

member and qualified participant contributions shall be deducted by

 

the employer and remitted as employer contributions to the funding

 


account in a manner that the state budget office and the retirement

 

system shall determine. The state budget office and the retirement

 

system shall determine a method of deducting the contributions

 

provided for in this section from the compensation of each member

 

and qualified participant for each payroll and each payroll period.

 

     (2) As used in this act, "funding account" means the

 

appropriate irrevocable trust created in the public employee

 

retirement health care funding act, 2010 PA 77, MCL 38.2731 to

 

38.2747, for the deposit of funds and the payment of retirement

 

health care benefits.

 

     (3) The department of technology, management, and budget shall

 

ensure, to the maximum extent possible, that payments made under

 

this section shall be applied for any tax credits or tax liability

 

reduction under the health care and education reconciliation act of

 

2010, Public Law 111-152.