An Act To Codify Unallocated Law Regarding the Maine State Retirement System
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 0962
Committee: Labor
Sponsors: TUTTLE
Amends: 5 MRSA §285

Legislative Document 
No. 962 
H.P.672 
House of Representatives, February 24, 2005 
An Act To Codify Unallocated Law Regarding the Maine State 
Retirement System 
Submitted by the Department of Administrative and Financial Services pursuant to Joint 
Rule 204. 
Reference to the Committee on Labor suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative TUTTLE of Sanford. 
Pnnted on recycletJ paper 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 5 MRSA §285. sub-§l-C is enacted to read: 
I-C. 
Stat:ql,i~empJ.Qye...es who have retired C)D.d returned to 
covered employment 
under Maine State Retirement 
System. 
For 
purposes of participation in the state employee health insurance 
program pursuant to this section or in dental insurance coverage 
offered by the State, recipients of a service retirement benefit 
under the Maine State Retirement System who are retired state 
employees 
and 
who 
are 
reemployed 
as state employees 
must 
be 
tr_e..at5l.d 
as 
retirees 
under 
subsection 
I-A 
for 
purposes 
of 
eligibility for coverage under the group plan. 
Sec. 2. PL2001.c.442. §5 is amended to read: 
Sec. 5. Status of employees who have retired and returned to covered 
IS 
employment under the Maine State Retirement System. 
Notwithstanding 
the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 17651, and, except 
as provided in Title 5, section 17857, subsection 2, recipients 
of a service retirement benefit from the Maine State Retirement 
System 
who 
have 
returned 
to 
covered 
employment 
under 
the 
retirement system in a position that would otherwise be covered 
by the retirement plan for state employees and teachers may not 
contribute to 
the 
retirement 
system, 
do 
not 
earn creditable 
service for their employment after retirement and do not earn any 
addi tional retirement benefits as a result of that employment. 
They may participate in other retirement options available to 
similar employees, 
including the state program of tax-deferred 
.lU 
arrangements under Title 5, 
chapter 67, 
at the discretion of 
their 
employer. 
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SUMMARY 
This bill moves certain language referring to the status of 
employees who have retired and returned to covered employment 
under the Maine State Retirement System from Public Law 2001, 
chapter 442, section 5 to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, 
chapter 
13, 
subchapter 
2, 
which 
concerns 
the 
state 
employee 
health insurance program. 
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