[As Amended by House on Final Action]
         
Session of 1999
         
HOUSE Substitute for SENATE BILL No. 213
         
By Committee on Appropriations
         
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10             AN  ACT concerning retirement; relating to the Kansas public employees
11             retirement system and retirement systems relating thereto; affiliation;
12             membership; employee and employer contributions; reduction in po-
13             sitions in state government upon retirement of members; repealing
14             K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 75-6801.
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16       Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
17             Section  1. (a)  (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of K.S.A. 74-4971
18       and amendments thereto, on or after the effective date of this act, the
19       Kansas highway patrol may affiliate with the Kansas police and firemen's
20       retirement system established under the provisions of K.S.A. 74-4951 et
21       seq. and amendments thereto pursuant to the provisions of this act for
22       membership in the system of the officers of the capitol area security
23       patrol. For purposes of such affiliation for membership in the system of
24       the officers of the capitol area security patrol, the Kansas highway patrol
25       shall be considered a new participating employer. The Kansas highway
26       patrol shall make application for affiliation with such system in the man-
27       ner provided by K.S.A. 74-4954 and amendments thereto, to be effective
28       on July 1 next following application. The Kansas highway patrol shall
29       affiliate for membership in the system of the officers of the capitol area
30       security patrol for prior service credit for the period commencing on July
31       1, 1995, and ending on the day preceding the effective date of this act
32       and participating service credit.
33             (2) The Kansas highway patrol shall appropriate and pay a sum suf-
34       ficient to satisfy any obligations as certified by the board of trustees of
35       the retirement system and the employer contributions of the Kansas high-
36       way patrol shall be as provided in K.S.A. 74-4967 and amendments
37       thereto.
38             (b)  (1) Each officer of the capitol area security patrol employed by
39       the Kansas highway patrol on the date of affiliation, may become a mem-
40       ber of the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system on the first day
41       of the payroll period of such member, coinciding with or following the
42       entry date of the Kansas highway patrol as provided in this section, only
43       by filing with the board of trustees of the system, on or before the entry

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  1       date of the Kansas highway patrol as provided in this section, a written
  2       election to become a member of the system. Failure to file such written
  3       election shall be presumed to be an election not to become a member of
  4       the system. Such election, whether to become or not to become a mem-
  5       ber, shall be irrevocable.
  6             (2) Each officer of the capitol area security patrol who is on an au-
  7       thorized leave of absence or is in the military service on the entry date
  8       of the Kansas highway patrol as provided in this section may become a
  9       member of the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system on the first
10       day of the first payroll period of such member, coinciding with such mem-
11       ber's return to active employment and payroll of the Kansas highway
12       patrol, only by filing with the board of trustees of the system within 10
13       days after such return to active employment a written election to become
14       a member of the system. Failure to file such written election shall be
15       presumed to be an election not to become a member of the system. Such
16       election, whether to become a member or not to become a member, shall
17       be irrevocable.
18             (c) Every person who is employed as an officer of the capitol area
19       security patrol on or after the entry date of the Kansas Highway patrol
20       into the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system as provided in
21       this section shall become a member of the Kansas police and firemen's
22       retirement system on the first day of such employment.
23             (d) If the Kansas highway patrol affiliates as provided in this act and
24       each officer of the capitol area security patrol who elects to become a
25       member as provided in this act, the Kansas highway patrol and each such
26       member shall be subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 74-4951 et seq. and
27       amendments thereto as applicable.
28             (e) The division of the budget and the governor shall include in the
29       budget and in the budget request for appropriations for personnel serv-
30       ices the amount required to satisfy the employer's obligation under this
31       act as certified by the board of trustees of the system, and shall present
32       the same to the legislature for allowance and appropriations.
33        Sec.  2. K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 75-6801 is hereby repealed.
34        Sec.  3. [2.] This act shall take effect and be in force from and after
35       its publication in the statute book.
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