Title 38, CIVIL SERVICE AND RETIREMENT

Sec. 66. (1) A qualified participant, former qualified participant, or refund beneficiary may request a hearing on a claim involving the participant's or beneficiary's rights under Tier 2. On written request, the department shall provide for a hearing that must be conducted under…

Sec. 67. Each qualified participant, former qualified participant, and refund beneficiary shall direct the investment of the individual's accumulated employer and employee contributions and earnings to 1 or more investment choices within available categories of investment provide…

Sec. 68. The administrative expenses of Tier 2 must be paid by the qualified participants, former qualified participants, and refund beneficiaries who have not closed their accounts in a manner determined by the department.

Sec. 69. A qualified participant shall not participate in any other public sector retirement benefits plan for simultaneous service rendered to the same public sector employer. Except as otherwise provided in this act or by the department, this section does not prohibit a qualifi…

Sec. 70. (1) This section is subject to the vesting requirements of section 42b. (2) Unless the qualified participant affirmatively elects not to contribute or elects to contribute a lesser amount, the qualified participant shall contribute 2% of his or her compensation to his or…

Sec. 72. A qualified participant or former qualified participant may nominate 1 or more individuals as a refund beneficiary by filing written notice of nomination with the department. If the qualified participant or former qualified participant is married at the time of the nomin…

Sec. 73. (1) A qualified participant is eligible to receive distribution of his or her accumulated balance in Tier 2 upon becoming a former qualified participant. (2) Upon the death of a qualified participant or former qualified participant, the accumulated balance of that deceas…

Sec. 74. (1) The department has the right of setoff to recover overpayments made under this act and to satisfy any claims arising from embezzlement or fraud committed by a qualified participant, former qualified participant, refund beneficiary, or other person who has a claim to …

Sec. 1. (1) A city, village, or township that has adopted the provisions of Act No. 78 of the Public Acts of 1935, as amended, being sections 38.501 to 38.518 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, may operate a police cadet training program. An applicant for enrollment in the program sh…

Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "protecting local government retirement and benefits act".

Sec. 2. The legislature finds and declares that this act is intended to reflect the July 2017 Report of Findings and Recommendations for Action of the Responsible Retirement Reform for Local Government Task Force.

Sec. 3. As used in this act: (a) "Annual report" means the most recent audited financial statement reporting a local unit of government's liability for retirement pension benefits and retirement health benefits as determined under applicable government accounting standards of the…

Sec. 4. (1) Beginning July 1, 2018, if a local unit of government offers or provides an employee of the local unit of government, or a former employee first employed by the local unit of government before the effective date of this act, with a retirement health benefit, all of th…

Sec. 5. (1) For purposes of reporting under this section, the state treasurer shall annually establish uniform actuarial assumptions of retirement systems that include, but are not limited to, investment returns, salary increase rates, mortality tables, discount rates, and health…

Sec. 6. (1) To apply for a waiver of the underfunded status determination under section 5, the local unit of government's administrative officer and governing body must approve a plan demonstrating the underfunded status is being addressed and must approve the waiver application.…

Sec. 7. (1) The municipal stability board is created within the department of treasury. Except as otherwise provided in this act, the board shall exercise its powers, duties, and functions independently of the state treasurer. The budgeting, procurement, and related management fu…

Sec. 8. The board shall review and annually update a list of best practices and strategies that will assist an underfunded local unit of government in developing a corrective action plan.

Sec. 9. An underfunded local unit of government shall develop and submit for approval a corrective action plan for the local unit of government. The local unit of government shall determine the components of the corrective action plan.

Sec. 10. (1) The board shall review and vote on the approval of a corrective action plan submitted by a local unit of government. A local unit of government that is in underfunded status shall submit a corrective action plan to the board within 180 days after the determination of…

Sec. 12. (1) The board is a state board and its members are state officers for the purposes of section 6419 of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.6419. (2) The validity of the board is conclusively presumed unless questioned in an original action filed in th…

Sec. 1. In order to extend to employees of the state of Michigan and its political subdivisions and to the dependents and survivors of such employees, the provisions of old-age and survivors insurance system embodied in the social security act, it is hereby declared to be agreeab…

Sec. 2. For the purposes of this act— (a) The term "wages" means all remuneration for employment as defined herein, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash, except that such term shall not include that part of such remuneration which, even …

Sec. 3. (a) The department may enter on behalf of the state into an agreement with the secretary of health and human services, consistent with this act, for purposes of extending the benefits of the federal old-age and survivors insurance system to employees of the state or any p…

Sec. 4. Any instrumentality jointly created by this state and any other state or states is hereby authorized, upon the granting of like authority by such other state or states, (a) to enter into an agreement with the secretary of health, education, and welfare whereby the benefit…

Sec. 5. Every employee of the state, including public school employees as defined under section 2 (c) of this act, whose services are covered by an agreement entered into under section 3 shall be required to pay for the period of such coverage, into the contribution fund establis…

Sec. 6. The contribution imposed by section 5 shall be collected by the state treasurer by deducting the amount of the contribution from wages as and when paid, but failure to make such deduction shall not relieve the employee from liability for such contribution. The contributio…

Sec. 7. If more or less than the correct amount of the contribution imposed by section 5 is paid or deducted with respect to any remuneration, proper adjustments, or refund if adjustment is impracticable, shall be made in such manner and at such times as the department shall pres…

Sec. 8. Each political subdivision of the state is hereby authorized to submit for approval by the department a plan for extending the benefits of title II of the social security act, in conformity with applicable provisions of such act, to employees of such political subdivision…

Sec. 9. Each plan made under section 8 shall provide that the political subdivision will appropriate to the contribution fund created under section 13 of this act for each year that the plan is in effect an amount equal to the subdivision's share of the cost of administration of …

Sec. 10. The department shall not finally refuse to approve a plan submitted by a political subdivision under section 8, and shall not terminate an approved plan, without reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the political subdivision affected thereby. The findings of …

Sec. 11. (a) Each political subdivision as to which a plan has been approved under this section shall pay into the contribution fund, created under section 13, with respect to wages at such time or times as the department may by regulation prescribe, contributions in the amounts …

Sec. 12. Delinquent payments due under section 11(a), with interest at a rate established by the department, but not to exceed the interest rate required under federal law to be paid by the state on delinquent social security taxes, may be recovered in an action in the circuit co…

Sec. 13. There is established in the state treasury a special fund to be known as the contribution fund. The fund shall consist of and there shall be deposited in the fund all of the following: (a) All contributions, interest, and penalties collected under sections 5, 8, 10, and …

Sec. 14. There shall be established within the contribution fund a separate account to be known as the administrative account. This account shall consist of, and there shall be deposited therein, all moneys received under sections 9 and 18. All moneys received in the administrati…

Sec. 15. The contribution fund shall be established and held separate and apart from any other funds or moneys of the state and shall be used and administered exclusively for the purpose of this act. Withdrawals from such fund shall be made for, and solely for (a) payment of amou…

Sec. 16. From the contribution fund the custodian of the fund shall pay to the secretary of the treasury of the United States such amounts as are provided under the agreement entered into under section 3 and the social security act, at such time or times as the department directs…

Sec. 17. The treasurer of the state shall be ex-officio treasurer and custodian of the contribution fund and shall administer such fund in accordance with the provisions of this act and the directions of the department and shall pay all warrants drawn upon it in accordance with t…

Sec. 18. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated annually to the contribution fund, in addition to the contributions collected and paid into the contribution fund under sections 5, 11 and 12, to be available for the purposes of section 15 and section 16 until expended, suc…

Sec. 19. For the purpose of administering the provisions of this act, there are hereby appropriated to the department all contributions made to the contribution fund under section 9 and there is authorized to be appropriated from the general fund for each fiscal year an amount ne…

Sec. 20. The department shall make and publish such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, as it finds necessary or appropriate to the efficient administration of the functions with which it is charged under this act.

Sec. 21. (a) With respect to employees of the state who are members of the state employees' retirement system created by Act No. 240 of the Public Acts of 1943, as amended, the regents of the university of Michigan, the state board of agriculture, public school employees who are …

Sec. 101. This act shall be known and may be cited as "the judges retirement act of 1992".

Sec. 102. For the purposes of this act, the words and phrases defined in this article have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.

Sec. 103. (1) "Accumulated contributions" means the balance standing to the member's credit in the reserve for member contributions. The balance includes member contributions and interest attributable to those contributions. (2) "Active duty" means full-time duty in the armed for…

Sec. 104. (1) "Compensation" means 1 of the following: (a) For a plan 1 member or plan 2 member, the salary paid by this state. (b) For a plan 3 member, the salary paid by this state, except that for a plan 3 member who is a judge of the recorder's court of the city of Detroit, c…

Sec. 105. (1) Beginning January 1, 2002, except as otherwise provided in this subsection, "eligible retirement plan" means 1 or more of the following: (a) An individual retirement account described in section 408(a) of the internal revenue code, 26 USC 408. (b) An individual reti…