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Committee Hears Bills to Move Corrections, EMS and Dispatchers into Public Safety Retirement Plan
Summary
Two related bills would expand the North Dakota PERS public safety retirement plan to include state corrections staff and—by local opt‑in—EMS personnel and dispatchers; committee members heard extensive testimony from corrections and EMS officials, PERS staff and associations.
Representative Todd Porter said his two companion bills — House Bill 1274 and House Bill 1419 — are meant to level the playing field for public‑safety occupations by allowing state correctional officers, 911 dispatchers and certain emergency medical services personnel to participate in the North Dakota Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) public safety retirement plan.
Porter told the House Government and Veterans Affairs Committee that political subdivisions can already elect to place local law enforcement, fire and corrections employees into the public safety plan; the bills aim to make state employees eligible in the same way and to allow political subdivisions that choose to do so to move EMS personnel and dispatchers…
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