SB2005

Report Title:

Employees' Retirement System; DOCARE Officers

Description:

Allows conservation and resources enforcement officers of the department of land and natural resources to retire without penalty after 25 years of service; provided that they serve in that capacity for at least 5 years immediately prior to retirement.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2005
TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 88-21, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:

""Conservation and resources enforcement officer": any regularly employed member of the department of land and natural resources whose principal duty is to enforce conservation laws and protect the State's natural resources."

SECTION 2. Section 88-74.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§88-74.6[]] Unreduced allowance on service retirement; when applicable. In addition to those positions identified in section 88-74(1), and notwithstanding any law in this part that requires a member to attain age fifty-five to qualify for an unreduced service retirement allowance, if the member has at least [thirty]:

(1) Thirty years of credited service through June 30, 2003; twenty-nine years of credited service on or after July 1, 2004; twenty-eight years of credited service on or after July 1, 2005; twenty-seven years of credited service on or after July 1, 2006; twenty-six years of credited service on or after July 1, 2007; and twenty-five years of credited service on or after July 1, 2008, as an emergency medical technician[,]; or

(2) Twenty—five years of credited service on or after July 1, 2006, as a conservation and resources enforcement officer;

of which the last five or more years prior to retirement is credited service in that capacity, then upon retirement and irrespective of age, that member's service retirement allowance shall not be reduced for actuarial purposes."

 

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