HB240 Alabama 2017 Session

Under existing law, an employee of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency who is certified by the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission and performs law enforcement duties and is hired after January 1, 2015, is classified as a law enforcement officer and is ineligible to participate as a state policeman in the State Employees' Retirement System

This bill would reclassify new employees hired by the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency to allow them to participate as a state policeman in the State Employees' Retirement System as a Tier II state policeman member

This bill would also provide that an employee classified as a law enforcement officer beginning January 1, 2015, would automatically become a participant as a Tier II state policeman and would allow the employee to elect to convert prior service credit earned as a law enforcement officer with the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency to service as a state policeman for the time period from January 1, 2015, to the effective date of the act

To amend Section 41-27-7, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the State Employees' Retirement System; to provide for the reclassification of certain law enforcement employees of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency to allow them to participate in the State Employees' Retirement System as a Tier II state policeman member; and to provide that certain employees hired by the agency beginning January 1, 2015, would become participants in the State Employees' Retirement System as state policeman members.