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Committee advances pension and DWD agency bills; unanimous votes
Summary
The Employment, Labor and Pensions committee advanced a package of pension and agency bills—including SB 14 (PERF/TURF technical changes), SB 69 (77 fund death benefit increase), SB 162 (DWD agency changes), and SB 214 (move administrative rules into code)—each passed by a 12-0 committee tally.
The committee heard a series of agency and pension bills and moved them forward by unanimous tallies.
Senate Bill 14, presented by Senator Rogers, would replace a 1977 $2,000 severance cap with a 120% final-year wage limit, align PERF definitions with TURF to simplify administration, allow a five-year election to revisit retirement-plan choice, and make other technical adjustments. Representative Teschka offered an amendment to treat voluntary tax-deferred contribution elections as standard…
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