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Senate committee sends SB 1569 to Ways and Means after debate over PERS classification
Summary
The Senate Committee on Labor and Business voted to send Senate Bill 1569 — which would add several job classifications to the statutory definition of "police officers" for Public Employees Retirement System purposes — to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means without recommendation after members debated fiscal impacts and classification criteria.
The Senate Committee on Labor and Business voted 4–1 on Feb. 11 to send Senate Bill 1569 to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means without recommendation after a brief work session that centered on whether the measure is policy-ready and the potential effects on the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS).
Whitney, committee staff, told the committee that "there is no revenue impact, and there is an indeterminate fiscal impact," and summarized the bill: "It adds assistant attorney generals, juvenile custody service specialists, and juvenile court counselors of a county juvenile department who perform specific duties, forensic scientists, or evidence technicians employed by county sheriff, municipal…
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