KRS § 161.545 — KY Code / Title XIII / Chapter 161 / Section 161.545
161.545 Contributions and service credit for substitute service, part-time service, or leave of absence -- Contributions not to be picked up -- Purchases of service credit for leaves of absence for health, child-rearing, and educational improvement reasons
Status: in_force

161.545 Contributions and service credit for substitute service, part-time service,

or leave of absence -- Contributions not to be picked up -- Purchases of service

credit for leaves of absence for health, child-rearing, and educational

improvement reasons.

(1) (a) Members may make contributions and receive service credit for substitute,

part-time, or any service other than regular full-time teaching as provided in

the administrative regulations of the board of trustees if contributions were not

otherwise made as a result of the service.

(b) Members placed on leave of absence during a period of full-time employment

as defined in KRS 161.220(21) may make contributions and receive service

credit for this leave only if contributions are made by the end of the fiscal year

next succeeding the year in which the leave was effective as provided in

administrative regulations promulgated by the board of trustees. Contributions

permitted after August 1, 1982, shall not be picked-up pursuant to KRS

161.540(2).

(2) Active contributing members of the Teachers' Retirement System, or former

members who are currently participating in a state-administered retirement system,

who were granted leaves of absence during a period of full-time employment as

defined in KRS 161.220(21) since July 1, 1964, for reasons of health as defined

under the Federal Family Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. secs. 2601 et seq.,

child rearing, or to improve their educational qualifications, and did not purchase

the leave of absence as provided in subsection (1) of this section may obtain credit

for the leave of absence as provided under the administrative regulations of the

board of trustees and under the following conditions:

(a) The leave of absence shall be verified by a copy of the board of education

minutes which granted the leave of absence or by other documentation that

was generated contemporaneously with the leave that is determined by the

retirement system to reasonably establish that a leave of absence was granted;

(b) The member shall contribute the required percentage based on the salary

received for the year immediately preceding the leave of absence plus interest

at the rate of eight percent (8%) compounded annually from the beginning of

the school year following the year of the leave of absence, and by depositing

the appropriate contributions in the state accumulation fund and medical

insurance fund; and

(c) The member shall receive credit for no more than two (2) years under the

provisions of this subsection.

(3) Sabbatical leaves of absence granted by any one (1) of the five (5) universities

identified in KRS 161.220(4)(b) for which the university employee is provided full

pay at the rate he or she was provided as a full-time employee immediately

preceding the sabbatical leave shall be deemed as full-time employment provided

for the university, and employee and employer contributions shall be made in

accordance with KRS 161.540 and 161.550.

(4) Contributions permitted under this section after August 1, 1982, shall not be picked-

up pursuant to KRS 161.540(2).

(5) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section to the contrary, purchase of

service credit under subsection (2) of this section for individuals who become

members on or after July 1, 2008, shall be purchasable only at the full actuarial cost.