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1 HB130
2 84QLAFH-1
3 By Representative Hill
4 RFD: Ways and Means Education
5 First Read: 13-Jan-26
6 PFD: 07-Jan-26
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 84QLAFH-1 01/06/2026 KMS (L)cr 2025-3430
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4 SYNOPSIS:
5This bill would reopen the Teachers' Retirement
6System to allow an active, vested, and contributing
7member to purchase credit in the system for prior
8service rendered to the St. Clair County Day Program,
9Incorporated.
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12A BILL
13TO BE ENTITLED
14AN ACT
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16To reopen the Teachers' Retirement System to permit
17 purchase of credit in the system for prior service rendered to
18 the St. Clair County Day Program, Incorporated.
19 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
20Section 1. (a) The governing body of the St. Clair
21 County Day Program, Incorporated, by resolution legally
22 adopted to conform to the rules prescribed by the Board of
23 Control of the Teachers' Retirement System, may elect to have
24 its executive officers and full-time employees, from whatever
25 source and in whatever manner paid, become eligible to
26 participate in the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama,
27 subject to all rules, regulations, and conditions thereof.
28(b) After the governing body of the St. Clair County
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29 Day Program, Incorporated, has made an election through a
30 resolution as provided in subsection (a), its employees and
31 executive officers may participate in and be entitled to all
32 benefits of the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama;
33 provided, that where contributions are made from salaries paid
34 by the St. Clair County Day Program, Incorporated, the St.
35 Clair County Day Program, Incorporated, shall pay the employer
36 cost, calculated as a percentage of the salaries of those
37 employees, to be contributed as employer contributions in
38 accordance with Section 16-25-21, Code of Alabama 1975. The
39 amount shall be paid monthly and at the same time as the
40 members' contributions are made to the Teachers' Retirement
41 System.
42(c) The governing body of the St. Clair County Day
43 Program, Incorporated, may provide in its resolution to the
44 Teachers' Retirement System's Board of Control that all
45 service rendered by an eligible employee or executive officer
46 to the program, before the effective date of the program's
47 election to come under the Teachers' Retirement System, shall
48 be creditable service to the employee or executive officer;
49 provided, that any provision shall apply only to those
50 employees and officers who were in the active service of the
51 program on the effective date of the program's election to be
52 covered under the Teachers' Retirement System; and provided
53 further, that the resolution also states that the St. Clair
54 County Day Program, Incorporated, shall assume and pay, as
55 required, all costs necessary to fund the crediting of the
56 previous service, the costs to be determined by the actuary
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57 employed by the Teachers' Retirement System Board of Control.
58 All benefits that accrue and are payable to any beneficiary
59 hereunder shall be limited to, and shall not exceed, the
60 amount paid in by the beneficiary and the employer plus his or
61 her portion of the interest earned and the enhancement of his
62 or her monies by investing them, less cost of administration,
63 at no cost to the State of Alabama.
64Section 2. This act shall become effective on June 1,
65 2026.
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