SENATE BILL No. 1178

 

 

November 10, 2016, Introduced by Senator PAVLOV and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 

 

     A bill to amend 1965 PA 314, entitled

 

"Public employee retirement system investment act,"

 

by amending section 20m (MCL 38.1140m), as amended by 2014 PA 185.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 20m. (1) The governing board vested with the general

 

administration, management, and operation of a system or other

 

decision-making body that is responsible for implementation and

 

supervision of any system shall confirm in the annual actuarial

 

valuation required under section 20h and the summary annual report

 

required under section 13 that each system under this act provides

 

for the payment of the required employer contribution as provided

 

in this section and shall confirm in the summary annual report that

 

the system has received the required employer contribution for the

 

year covered in the summary annual report. The required employer

 

contribution is the actuarially determined contribution amount. An


annual required employer contribution in a system under this act

 

shall must consist of a current service cost payment and a payment

 

of at least the annual accrued amortized interest on any unfunded

 

actuarial liability and the payment of the annual accrued amortized

 

portion of the unfunded principal liability.

 

     (2) For fiscal years that begin before January 1, 2006, the

 

required employer contribution shall must not be determined using

 

an amortization period greater than 40 years. Except as otherwise

 

provided in this section, for fiscal years that begin after

 

December 31, 2005, the required employer contribution shall must

 

not be determined using an amortization period greater than 30

 

years. For the Tier 1 retirement plan under the Michigan public

 

school employees' retirement system, created under the public

 

school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301

 

to 38.1437, for fiscal years that begin after December 31, 2016,

 

the required employer contribution must be determined using the

 

amortization period provided in section 41 of the public school

 

employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1341. For the

 

Tier 1 retirement plan under the state employees' retirement

 

system, created under the state employees' retirement act, 1943 PA

 

240, MCL 38.1 to 38.69; the Michigan public school employees'

 

retirement system created under the public school employees

 

retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437; and

 

the Michigan state police retirement system created under the state

 

police retirement act of 1986, 1986 PA 182, MCL 38.1601 to 38.1648,

 

only, for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2006, the

 

contribution for the unfunded actuarial accrued liability shall


must be equal to the product of the assumed real rate of investment

 

return times the unfunded actuarial accrued liability. In a plan

 

year, any current service cost payment may be offset by a credit

 

for amortization of accrued assets, if any, in excess of actuarial

 

accrued liability. A required employer contribution for a system

 

administered under this act shall must allocate the actuarial

 

present value of future plan benefits between the current service

 

costs to be paid in the future and the actuarial accrued liability.

 

     (3) The governing board vested with the general

 

administration, management, and operation of a system or other

 

decision-making body that is responsible for implementation and

 

supervision of a system shall act upon the recommendation of an

 

actuary and the board and the actuary shall take into account the

 

standards of practice of the actuarial standards board Actuarial

 

Standards Board of the American academy Academy of actuaries

 

Actuaries in making the determination of the required employer

 

contribution.

 

     (4) (2) Subsection Subsections (1) applies to (3) apply to a

 

large sponsored system except as otherwise provided in a plan for

 

adjustment. As used in this subsection, "plan for adjustment" means

 

that term as defined in section 13g.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No. 102 of the 98th Legislature is enacted into

 

law.