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Witnesses describe personal difficulties and agency opposition over HB 3-12 allowing correctional officers to redeposit prior service
Summary
HB 3-12 would restore the ability of some correctional officers transferred into CORES to redeposit previously withdrawn service credit; an affected employee recounted conflicting agency guidance and lost retirement timing, while the State Retirement Agency opposed the bill on equity grounds.
A sponsor introduced HB 3-12 to allow correctional officers who were legislatively transferred into the correctional officers’ retirement system (CORES) to redeposit previously earned credit from the employees’ or teachers’ systems.
Catherine Elizabeth Perrin described her personal experience: she began state service in 2004, had a four-month break in 2012, and sought to purchase prior service after that break but was…
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