An Act Requiring Equal Retirement Benefits for Corrections Officers and Mental Health Workers with 25 Years of State Service
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 0748
Committee Amendment CA_A-SA_A_S311 (Senate)

SENATE 
AMENDMENT ,A" to COMMITTEE 
AMENDMENT "A" to S. P. 
246, L.D. 748, Bill, "An Act Requiring Equal Retirement Benefits 
for Corrections Officers and Mental Health Workers with 25 Years 
of State Service" 
Amend the amendment by striking out the substitute title and 
replacing it with the following: 
'Resolve, 
Establishing 
the 
Commission 
To 
Study 
Retirement 
Eligibility and Benefits for Corrections Officers. Certain Other 
Lav Enforcement Officers and Mental Health Workers' 
Further amend the amendment by striking out all of the 
emergency preamble (page 1, lines 34 to 47 and page 2, lines 1 to 
in amendment) and inserting in its place the following: 
. Emergency preamble. Whereas, acts 
Legislature 
do 
not 
become 
effective 
adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; 
and 
until 
and 
resolves 
of 
the 
days 
after 
Whereas, the Commission To Study Retirement Eligibility and 
Benefits for Certain Law Enforcement Officers and Mental Health 
Workers is established to address problems of inconsistency in 
retirement benefits and the need for earlier retirement for 
certain law enforcement officers and mental health workers; and 
Whereas, the study must 
be 
initiated before the 
90-day 
period expires in order that the study may be completed and a 
report submitted in time for submission to the next legislative 
session; and 
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SENATE 
AMENDMENT A" to COMMITTEE 
AMENDMENT "A" to S.P. 
L.D. 748 
246, 
Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts 
create an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of 
Maine 
and 
require 
the 
following 
legislation 
as 
immediately 
necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and 
safety; now, therefore, be it' 
Further amend the amendment by striking out all of sections 
and 2 and inserting in their place the following: 
· Sec. 1. Commission established. Resolved: 
That the Commission 
To Study Retirement Eligibility and Benefits for Certain Law 
Enforcement Officers and Mental Health Workers, referred to in 
this resolve as "the commission," is established; 
and be it 
further 
Sec. 2. Commission membership. Resolved: 
That the commission 
consists of 17 members appointed as follows: 
1. 
Four members of the Senate, appointed by the President 
of the Senate; 
2. 
Five members of the House of Representatives, appointed 
by the Speaker of the House; 
3. 
One member representing corrections officers, appointed 
by the President of the Senate; 
4. 
One member representing mental health workers, appointed 
by the Speaker of the House: 
5. 
One member representing the bargaining agent of law 
enforcement officers in the Office of the Attorney General, 
appointed by the President of the Senate: 
6. 
One member representing the bargaining agent of law 
enforcement officers in the Department of the Secretary of State, 
appointed by the Speaker of the House; 
7. 
One 
member 
representing employers 
of mental 
health 
workers, appointed by the President of the Senate; 
8. 
One 
member 
representing 
employers 
of 
corrections 
officers, appointed by the Speaker of the House; 
9. 
The Attorney General or the Attorney General's designee; 
and 
10. 
The Secretary of State or the Secretary of State's 
designee: and be it further' 
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SENATE 
AMENDMENT 
L.D. 748 
to COMMITTEE 
AMENDMENT 
.. A" to S.P. 246, 
Further amend the amendment by striking out all of section 5 
and inserting in its place the fOllowing: 
'Sec. 5. Duties. Resolved: 
That the commission may hold up to 
meetings and shall study the following issues: 
1. 
Whether law 
Attorney General and 
should be included in 
enforcement officers in the Office of the 
the Department of the Secretary of State 
the 1998 Special Plan; 
2. 
Whether correc'cions officers and mental health workers 
should have uniform retirement benefits; 
3. 
Whether corrections officers and mental health workers, 
regardless of their age, should be eligible to retire after 25 
years of service without a reduction in benefits; 
4. 
Which job classifications should be included in this 
retirement plan, if the plan is recommended by the commission; and 
5. 
possible ways of funding these retirement plans, if the 
plans are recommended by the commission; and be it further' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment expands the study to include a 
review of 
whether law enforcement officers in the Office of the Attorney 
General and the Department of the Secretary of State should be 
included 
in 
the 
1998 
Special 
Plan, 
and 
changes 
the 
name, 
membership and duties of the commission accordingly. 
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SPONSORED BY: ~-----­
(Senator STRIMLING) 
COUNTY: 
Cumberland 
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