Chapter 74, STATE BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND AUTHORITIES

74-4915a. Retirement benefits for members ineligible due to a reduction in hours. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), any member of the system who becomes eligible for another retirement plan authorized under any law of this state or who becomes ineligible for the…

74-4915b. Retirement benefits for certain members of the legislature; exceptions; service credit; reporting requirements of participating employers. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any member who is a member of the legislature who is also employed by ano…

74-4915c. Retirement benefits for certain elected local officials; exceptions; service credit. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any member who is an elected local official of a municipality who is also employed by another participating employer of the Kan…

74-4916. Payment of accumulated contributions upon death; accidental death benefit; accidental total disability benefit. (1) Upon the death of a member before retirement, the member's accumulated contributions shall be paid to the member's beneficiary. (2) (a) In the event that a…

74-4917. Termination of employment; payment of accumulated contributions; certification of member contributions by participating employer; vesting of benefits, members as a result of a merger or consolidation; return to covered employment, condition, repayment of withdrawn accumu…

74-4917b. Termination of employment; payment of accumulated contributions; spousal consent; statement required. (1) Upon termination of employment, if a member who has accrued a vested benefit makes application to the system for payment of the member's accumulated contributions, …

74-4918. Retirement benefit options; elections of member and spouse; cancellation in certain circumstances; joint annuitants. (1) A member may elect to have such member's retirement benefit paid under one of the options provided in this section in lieu of having it paid in the fo…

74-4918a. Retirement benefit options; spousal consent; statement required. (a) If the member who is married at the time of retirement selects or will receive a retirement benefit or annuity which would provide to such member's spouse upon the member's death no monthly payments or…

74-4919. Member contributions; deductions; disposition; interest; employer pickup of member contributions. (1) Except as otherwise provided, each participating employer, beginning with the first payroll for services performed after the entry date, shall deduct from the compensati…

74-4919a. Purchase of participating service credit. (1) An employee of a participating employer who becomes a member as provided in K.S.A. 74-4911 and amendments thereto, after completion of one year of continuous employment as therein provided may purchase participating service …

74-4919b. Reinstatement of service for certain forfeited service. (a) Any employee of a participating employer who becomes a member of the system as provided in K.S.A. 74-4911 or 74-4935, and amendments thereto, who has previously been a member of the system and who has forfeited…

74-4919c. Election to have membership contributions deducted at a percentage of compensation, when; additional participating service credit; limitations. Except as otherwise provided in this section, any such member having previously lost credit for periods of participating servi…

74-4919d. Receipt of prior service credit; limit; reinstatement of prior service credit upon repayment of withdrawn contributions, when. (1) Any such member, having previously lost credit for periods of prior service because of termination of employment and withdrawal of contribu…

74-4919e. Revocation of election; new election after termination and withdrawal. No member, having elected to repurchase previously forfeited credit as hereinbefore provided, may revoke such election so long as such member is an eligible employee of a participating employer. If a…

74-4919f. Election to repurchase; lump-sum payment; determination of amount. In the event that a member, who elects to repurchase previously forfeited service credit, also elects to effect such repurchase by means of a single lump-sum payment, such member may do so, subject to th…

74-4919g. Repurchase by certain members of certain forfeited service credit under KSRS; lump-sum payment, determination of amount; purchase of forfeited service credit by certain employees of Sedgwick County. (1) Any member of this system who was previously a member of the Kansas…

74-4919h. Purchase of participating service credit for certain military service; terms and conditions; payroll deductions or lump-sum payment. (1) In addition to any military service credited under the provisions of K.S.A. 74-4913 or 74-4936, and amendments thereto, or in the eve…

74-4919i. Purchase of additional benefits for certain service; conditions; purchase by additional rate of contribution or lump-sum payment; service benefit. Any person who becomes a member of the Kansas public employees retirement system pursuant to subsection (14) of K.S.A. 74-4…

74-4919j. Purchase of participating service credit for service as an elected official. (1) In addition to any service credited under the provisions of K.S.A. 74-4913 or 74-4936, and amendments thereto, in the event that a member of the Kansas public employees retirement system do…

74-4919k. Election by certain members age 70 or older to make contributions and purchase certain service credit; procedure; effect. (a) Any member age 70 or older, who is a member of the Kansas public employees retirement system under the law in effect on June 17, 1983, may, afte…

74-4919l. Repurchase of previously forfeited service credit. Any member of the Kansas public employees retirement system who was previously a member of the retirement system for judges or the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system and who forfeited service credit under eit…

74-4919m. Purchase of participating service by previous TIAA-CREF members. (1) Except as otherwise provided, any active contributing member of the retirement system who at one time had the state board of regents assist such member in the purchase of retirement annuities as provid…

74-4919n. Purchase of additional benefits for nonfederal governmental employment. Any employee of a participating employer who is a member of the Kansas public employees retirement system, who was previously employed in another state in nonfederal governmental employment and whic…

74-4919o. Purchase of participating service credit for certain members of local police and fire pension plan. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of K.S.A. 74-4913, and amendments thereto and except as provided in subsection (3), any member of the Kansas public employees retiremen…

74-4919p. Purchase of prior service for certain service in the United States peace corps. Any member may purchase, subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 74-49,123, and amendments thereto, service for periods of service in the United States peace corps which commenced on or after Ja…

74-4919q. Purchase of prior service for certain service with memorial union corporation affiliated with Emporia state university. Any employee of a participating employer who is a member of the Kansas public employees retirement system, who was previously employed as an employee …

74-4919r. Purchase of service for in-state nonfederal governmental employment. Any employee of a participating employer who is a member of the Kansas public employees retirement system, who was previously employed in Kansas in nonfederal governmental employment with an employer w…

74-4919s. Purchase of service for VISTA service. Any member may purchase service credit for periods of service in the United States volunteers in service to America (VISTA) which commenced on or after January 1, 1962. At the election of the member, the benefit for each such perio…

74-4919u. Purchase of participating service credit for service as law enforcement personnel in support of united nations mission. Any member of the Kansas public employees retirement system who was previously employed in service as law enforcement personnel in support of a missio…

74-4919v. Purchase of participating service credit for certain journeyman service as teacher. Any member of the Kansas public employees retirement system may purchase up to two years of participating service credit for service as approved, directly related journeyman experience a…

74-4920. Employer contributions; determination and payment; tax levies, use of proceeds; rates of contribution for state and school employers, procedure; delinquent payments and interest, setoff against; rate of contribution to be paid by employers newly affiliating; actuarial co…

74-4921. Kansas public employees retirement fund, management and investment thereof; investment standards and objectives; alternative and real estate investments, conditions of investment; contracts with investment managers; custody of the fund. (1) There is hereby created in the…

74-4922. Reserves of the fund; crediting of interest. The executive director shall maintain such records as are necessary to determine the following reserves. (a) Member's accumulated contribution reserve. This reserve shall be maintained within the fund for each member and for e…

74-4923. Rights of members and beneficiaries not affected by change or repeal of act, exception; benefits and rights exempt from taxes and legal process and nonassignable, exceptions for decrees for support and maintenance and qualified domestic relations orders and lump-sum deat…

74-4924. False information, criminal penalty; correction of errors; withdrawal of contributions, deduction from amounts due; limitations on recovery by system; system to not recover certain overpayments. (1) Any person who shall knowingly make any false statement, or who shall fa…

74-4924a. Recovery of benefits inadvertently paid to certain retirants. Notwithstanding the provisions of K.S.A. 74-4914 to the contrary, the board of trustees of the Kansas public employees retirement system, upon presentation of satisfactory evidence, may delay the recovery of …

74-4925. Retirement plan for certain employees of the state board of regents; membership; employee contributions; KPERS prior service credit; certain employee elections; administration of plan. (1) The state board of regents shall: (a) Sponsor and maintain a retirement plan under…

74-4925a. Benefits granted to certain surviving spouses. Any member of the faculty or others described in subsection (1)(a) of K.S.A. 74-4925 and amendments thereto, who is a member of the Kansas public employees retirement system for the purpose of being granted retirement benef…

74-4925b. Regents employees; contribution of portion of compensation to retirement plan; eligibility. The state board of regents may establish a procedure whereby any employee of the state board of regents or any educational institution under the board's management, but not inclu…

74-4925e. Same; employer contribution rate for retirement plan. On and after the effective date of this act, the percentage amount to be contributed by the state board of regents under subsection (1)(c) of K.S.A. 74-4925, and amendments thereto, shall be computed on the basis of …

74-4925g. Certain regent retirants designated as special members. On and after the effective date of this act, each person who has retired and has been receiving or who will become eligible to receive a benefit as provided under subsection (3) of K.S.A. 74-4925, and amendments th…

74-4926. Invalidity of part. If any clause, paragraph, subsection or section of this act shall be held invalid or unconstitutional it shall be conclusively presumed that the legislature would have enacted the remainder of this act without such invalid or unconstitutional clause, …

74-4927. Plan of death and long-term disability benefits; employer contributions, limitation; optional death benefit plan; naming of beneficiaries. (1) The board may establish a plan of death and long-term disability benefits to be paid to the members of the retirement system as …

74-4927a. Insured death and disability benefits for certain employees of educational institutions under state board of regents. (1) For the purposes of providing the "insured death benefit" and "insured disability benefit" as prescribed in K.S.A. 74-4927, and amendments thereto, …

74-4927b. Insured death and disability benefits and accidental death benefit for certain employees of educational institutions under state board of education; employer's contribution; file of beneficiaries. (1) For the purposes of providing the "insured death benefit" and "insure…

74-4927c. Insured death and disability benefit and accidental death benefit for employees of state fulfilling one-year continuous service requirement; employer's contribution; file of beneficiaries; commencement of coverage. (1) For the purposes of providing the "insured death be…

74-4927d. Optional death benefit plan eligibility for active members of judges' retirement system. Commencing with the first day of the first payroll period of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1983, the optional death benefit plan established by the board of trustees of the Kansas…

74-4927e. Optional death benefit plan for active members and certain participating employers of Kansas police and firemen's retirement system. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the optional death benefit plan established by the board of trustees of the Kansas public emplo…

74-4927f. Insured death benefit for members of judges' retirement system; employer's contribution; commencement of coverage. (a) For the purposes of providing the "insured death benefit" as prescribed in K.S.A. 74-4927, and amendments thereto, to all persons who are members of th…

74-4927g. Insured death and disability benefit and accidental death benefit for certain employees of educational institutions under state board of regents fulfilling service requirement; employer contributions. (1) For the purposes of providing the "insured death benefit" and "lo…