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Senate committee backs bill clarifying retired employees may volunteer without losing PERSI benefits
Summary
The Senate Commerce Committee voted to send House Bill 55 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation after testimony that the bill clarifies when retired public employees may serve as unpaid volunteers without jeopardizing retirement benefits under PERSI's separation rules.
The Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday voted to send House Bill 55 to the Senate floor with a due-pass recommendation. Representative Sean Dygert, the bill sponsor, told the committee the measure clarifies that certain retirees may serve as unpaid, bona fide volunteers for their former employers without forfeiting retirement benefits under PERSI’s separation rules.
The bill aims to resolve situations in which retirees who leave service under the “rule of 90” face a 90-day separation requirement that currently can bar them from helping successors.…
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