Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

352.028 COVERAGE TERMINATION. Coverage of any person under the system ends when the person ceases to be a state employee. History: 1963 c 383 s 10; Ex1967 c 57 s 9; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 229 art 6 s 1

352.029 COVERAGE FOR EMPLOYEES OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. § Subdivision 1.Qualifications. Unless already specifically included under section 352.01, subdivision 2a, or unless specifically excluded under section 352.01, subdivision 2b, a state employee on leave of absence without pay…

352.03 BOARD OF DIRECTORS; EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. § Subdivision 1.Membership of board; election; term. (a) The policy-making function of the system is vested in a board of 11 members known as the board of directors. This board shall consist of: (1) three members appointed by the gov…

352.04 STATE EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT FUND, CONTRIBUTIONS BY EMPLOYEE AND EMPLOYER. § Subdivision 1.Fund created. There is created a special fund to be known as the general state employees retirement fund. In that fund, employee contributions, employer contributions, and other amount…

352.041 LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR EMPLOYMENT BY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION. § Subdivision 1.Allowable service credit. (a) An employee covered by the general state employees retirement plan who is given a leave of absence for employment by a political subdivision of the state remains a memb…

352.05 COMMISSIONER OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET TO BE TREASURER OF SYSTEM. The commissioner of management and budget is ex officio treasurer of the retirement funds of the system. The general bond to the state shall cover all liability for actions as treasurer of these funds. Funds …

352.061 INVESTMENT BOARD TO INVEST FUNDS. The director shall, from time to time, certify to the State Board of Investment any portions of the state employees retirement fund that in the judgment of the director are not required for immediate use. The State Board of Investment sha…

352.113 PERMANENT DISABILITY BENEFITS. § Subdivision 1.Age and service requirements. (a) An employee covered by the system, who has satisfied the applicable allowable service credit requirement under section 352.115, subdivision 1, has not reached normal retirement age, and becom…

352.115 RETIREMENT ANNUITY. § Subdivision 1.Age and service requirements. After separation from state service, any employee who has attained the age of at least 55 years is entitled, upon application, to a retirement annuity if the employee: (1) has received credit for at least t…

352.1155 NO ANNUITY REDUCTION. § Subdivision 1.Eligibility. Except as indicated in subdivision 4, the annuity reduction provisions of section 352.115, subdivision 10, do not apply to a person who: (1) retires from the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system with at least…

352.116 ANNUITIES UPON RETIREMENT. § Subdivision 1.Reduced annuity before normal retirement age. (a) This subdivision applies only to a person who first became a covered employee or a member of a pension fund listed in section 356.30, subdivision 3, before July 1, 1989, and whose…

352.12 REFUND AFTER DEATH. § Subdivision 1.Death before termination of service. If an employee dies before state service has terminated and neither a survivor annuity nor a bounce-back annuity is payable on behalf of the employee, or if a former employee who has sufficient servic…

352.15 EXEMPTION FROM PROCESS AND TAXATION. § Subdivision 1.Exemption. The provisions of section 356.401 apply to the general state employees retirement plan and to the correctional state employees retirement plan. § Subd. 1a. [Repealed, 1Sp2005 c 8 art 10 s 81] § Subd. 2. [Repea…

352.16 INSURANCE LAWS NOT TO APPLY. None of the laws of this state regulating insurance or insurance companies apply to the Minnesota State Retirement System or any of its funds. History: (254-18) 1929 c 191 s 18; 1933 c 326; 1935 c 238 s 16; 1941 c 391 s 15; Ex1967 c 57 s 19; 19…

352.22 REFUND OR DEFERRED ANNUITIES. § Subdivision 1.Service termination. Any employee who ceases to be a state employee by reason of termination of state service or layoff is entitled to a refund provided in subdivision 2 or a deferred retirement annuity as provided in subdivisi…

352.23 TERMINATION OF RIGHTS; REPAYMENT OF REFUND. (a) When any employee accepts a refund as provided in section 352.22, all existing allowable service credits and all rights and benefits to which the employee was entitled before accepting the refund terminate. (b) Terminated ser…

352.27 FEDERALLY PROTECTED PURCHASE OF SERVICE CREDIT FOR PERIODS OF MILITARY SERVICE. (a) An employee who is absent from employment by reason of service in the uniformed services, as defined in United States Code, title 38, section 4303(13), and who returns to state service upon…

352.272 STATE-AUTHORIZED PURCHASE OF SERVICE CREDIT FOR PERIODS OF MILITARY SERVICE. § Subdivision 1.Service credit purchase authorized. (a) Unless prohibited under paragraph (b), an employee is eligible to purchase service credit, not to exceed five cumulative years of service c…

352.75 TRANSFER OF PENSION COVERAGE SAVINGS CLAUSE; INCREASE IN EXISTING ANNUITIES AND BENEFITS. § Subdivision 1. [Repealed, 2015 c 68 art 13 s 65] § Subd. 2.New employees. All persons employed by the Metropolitan Council as employees of the Transit Operating Division are members…

352.85 MILITARY AFFAIRS PERSONNEL. § Subdivision 1.Eligibility; retirement annuity. Any person who is employed by the Department of Military Affairs other than as a full-time firefighter, who is covered by the general employee retirement plan of the system as provided in section …

352.86 TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT PILOTS. § Subdivision 1.Eligibility. This section applies to any employee of the Department of Transportation in the civil service employment classification of aircraft pilot or chief pilot, who is covered for that employment by the general employ…

352.87 STATE FIRE MARSHAL DIVISION EMPLOYEES. § Subdivision 1.Eligibility. A member of the general plan who is employed by the Department of Public Safety, State Fire Marshal Division, as a deputy state fire marshal, fire/arson investigator, who elects special benefit coverage un…

352.90 POLICY. It is the policy of the legislature to provide special retirement benefits for and special contributions by certain correctional employees who may need to retire at an early age because they lose the mental or physical capacity required to maintain the safety, secu…

352.901 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Terms. Unless the language or context clearly indicates a different meaning is intended, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given. The definitions in this section apply only to the correctional employees retirement plan and su…

352.905 COVERED CORRECTIONAL SERVICE. § Subdivision 1.Direct contact not required. (a) For all periods of service that an employee is performing covered correctional service as defined in this subdivision, the employee is a member of the correctional employees retirement plan, wh…

352.907 PLAN COVERAGE CHANGES. § Subdivision 1.Correctional plan membership committee. (a) A correctional plan membership committee is established to make determinations regarding changes to employment positions and to coverage of employees. (b) The members of the correctional pl…

352.908 CORRECTION OF PLAN COVERAGE ERRORS. Section 356.637 applies if an employee is erroneously covered by: (1) the correctional employees retirement plan when the employee should have been covered by one of the other plans specified in section 356.637; or (2) a plan specified …

352.91 § Subdivision 1. MS 2024 [Repealed, 2025 c 37 art 5 s 11] § Subd. 2. MS 2024 [Repealed, 2025 c 37 art 5 s 11] § Subd. 2a. MS 2024 [Repealed, 2025 c 37 art 5 s 11] § Subd. 3. [Repealed, 1996 c 408 art 8 s 29] § Subd. 3a. [Repealed, 2015 c 68 art 13 s 65] § Subd. 3b. [Repeal…

352.911 CORRECTIONAL EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT FUND. § Subdivision 1.Fund created. There is created a special fund to be known as the correctional employees retirement fund. § Subd. 2.Revenue sources. Employee contributions under section 352.92, subdivision 1, and employer contributio…

352.92 CORRECTIONAL EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS. § Subdivision 1.Employee contributions. (a) Employee contributions of covered correctional employees must be in an amount equal to the following percent of salary: from July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2018 9.1 after June 30, 2018 9.6 (b) Thes…

352.925 VESTING. (a) "Vesting" means obtaining a nonforfeitable entitlement to an annuity or benefit from the correctional state employees retirement plan by having credit for sufficient allowable service under paragraph (b) or (c), whichever applies. (b) A member who first becam…

352.93 RETIREMENT ANNUITY. § Subdivision 1.Basis of annuity; when to apply. After separation from state service, an employee covered under section 352.905 who has reached age 55 years and is vested under section 352.925, is entitled upon application to a retirement annuity under …

352.931 SURVIVOR BENEFITS. § Subdivision 1.Surviving spouse benefit. (a) If the correctional employee was at least age 50, was vested under section 352.925, and dies before an annuity or disability benefit has become payable, notwithstanding any designation of beneficiary to the …

352.94 AUGMENTATION FOR EMPLOYEES WITH GENERAL AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICE. An employee who becomes covered by the correctional plan after serving as a general plan covered employee, or becomes covered by the general plan after serving as a correctional plan covered employee, is cov…

352.95 DISABILITY BENEFITS. § Subdivision 1.Duty disability; computation of benefit. A covered correctional employee who is determined to have a duty disability, physical or psychological, as defined under section 352.01, subdivision 17b, is entitled to a duty disability benefit.…

352.951 APPLICABILITY OF GENERAL LAW. Except as otherwise provided, this chapter applies to covered correctional employees, military affairs personnel covered under section 352.85, Transportation Department pilots covered under section 352.86, and state fire marshal employees und…

352.955 TRANSFER OF PRIOR MSRS-GENERAL SERVICE CREDIT. § Subdivision 1.Election to transfer prior MSRS-general service credit. (a) An eligible employee described in paragraph (b) may elect to transfer service credit in the general state employees retirement plan of the Minnesota …

352.965 MINNESOTA STATE DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN. § Subdivision 1.Establishment. (a) The Minnesota deferred compensation plan is established. For purposes of this section, "plan" means the Minnesota deferred compensation plan, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. The…

352.97 PRIOR DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLANS; CONSTRUCTION. Sections 352.965 and 352.97 do not preempt, prohibit, ratify, or approve any other deferred compensation plan established before or after June 3, 1975. History: 1975 c 273 s 2; 1987 c 229 art 6 s 1; 2008 c 349 art 11 s 4

352.98 HEALTH CARE SAVINGS PLAN. § Subdivision 1.Plan created. This section must be administered by the executive director of the system with the advice and consent of the board of directors. The executive director shall establish a plan or plans, known as health care savings pla…