HOUSE BILL No. 5411

 

 

January 16, 2018, Introduced by Rep. Barrett and referred to the Committee on Financial Services.

 

     A bill to amend 1943 PA 240, entitled

 

"State employees' retirement act,"

 

by amending section 45 (MCL 38.45), as amended by 2002 PA 743.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 45. As used in this section and sections 45 to 46 and 47:

 

     (a) "Covered position" means any of the following:

 

     (i) On or after January 1, 1989, a position in the classified

 

civil service with a classification of corrections any of the

 

following:

 

     (A) Corrections officer. ; resident

 

     (B) Resident unit officer. ; corrections

 

     (C) Corrections medical aide. ; corrections

 

     (D) Corrections shift supervisor. ; corrections

 

     (E) Corrections security specialist; deputy inspector.

     (F) Corrections security representative.

 

     (G) Deputy prison warden. ; or departmental

 

     (H) Departmental administrator-prison warden.

 

     (ii) On or after January 1, 1989, a position that is assigned

 

to a work station inside the security perimeter of a state

 

correctional facility designated as "medium", "close", or

 

"maximum".

 

     (iii) On or after January 1, 1989, a position within a state

 

correctional facility that requires the employee to be in direct

 

contact with prisoners for more than 50% of the employee's work

 

time performing supervisory or disciplinary duties including 1 or

 

more of the following:

 

     (A) Supervising prisoners in the performance of tasks.

 

     (B) Supervising prisoners for the purpose of enforcing the

 

facility's rules.

 

     (C) Direct participation in the disciplinary process.

 

     (iv) On or after January 1, 1989, a position with the center

 

for forensic psychiatry that is classified by civil service as

 

forensics security aide IIB, forensics security aide IIIB,

 

forensics security supervisor IVB, forensics security supervisor

 

VB, forensics security supervisor VIB, or forensics supervisor VII.

 

     (v) A position that was a covered position under this section

 

before January 1, 1989, that is excluded by subparagraphs (i),

 

(ii), (iii), and to (iv), if and only as long as the person in the

 

position on January 1, 1989, continues in the position after

 

January 1, 1989.

 

     (b) "Supplemental member" means a member who is employed in a

covered position.

 

     (c) "Covered service" means credited service acquired in a

 

covered position.

 

     (d) "Supplemental final average compensation" means 1/3 of the

 

compensation paid a supplemental member during the period of 3

 

consecutive years of the member's covered service producing the

 

highest average and contained within the member's last 10 years of

 

credited service immediately preceding the date the member's

 

employment in a covered position last terminates.

 

     (e) "State correctional facility" means a facility under the

 

jurisdiction of the department of corrections that has a

 

designation of "maximum", "close", "medium", "minimum", "prison

 

camp", or "correction center".