An Act To Allow Certain Special Education Teachers To Acquire Time from the Maine State Retirement II System
Maine Legislature, Session 123, LD 0827
Committee Amendment CA_A_H392 (House)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" IJ " to H.P. 624, L.D. 827, Bill, "An Act To Allow 
Certain Special Education Teachers To Acquire Time from the Maine State Retirement 
II 
System" 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the 
summary and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. 5 MRS A §17763-A is enacted to read: 
§17763-A. Purchase of service credit by an educator of a child with a disability; 
service before July 1, 1976 
If a member can provide the board with satisfactory evidence that the member 
performed before July 1, 1976 any work as an educator or teacher of a child with a 
disability, as defined in Title 20-A, section 7001, subsection I-B, including as a teacher 
who may not meet the definition in section 17001, subsection 42, in a private or parochial 
school or other school, center, facility or program that was not part of a public school 
system, the member may purchase up to one year of service credit for any such work 
performed before July 1, 1976. Service credit for this work must be calculated on the 
basis of school years. In order to purchase this service credit and before any retirement 
benefit becomes effective, the member must pay into the Members' Contribution Fund by 
a single direct payment or annual direct payments to the retirement system an amount 
that, together with regular interest on that amount, is the actuarial equivalent at the 
effective date of the retirement benefit of the portion of the retirement benefit based on 
the additional creditable service. Annual payments must be made in accordance with 
section 1770 I, subsection 4. Additional amounts paid under this subsection become a 
part of the member's accumulated contributions. 
If any retirement benefit becomes 
effective before the completion of the payment under this section, the member is entitled 
to service credit for that portion of the additional creditable service that the total amount 
of payments actually made plus regular interest on those payments to the date the 
retirement benefit becomes effective bears to the actuarial equivalent of the total portion 
ofthe retirement benefit based on the additional creditable service.' 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" A " 
to H.P. 624, L.D. 827 
SUMMARY 
This amendment strikes and replaces the bill but retains a provIsIon for the 
acquisition of service credit similar to the bill, in which educators can acquire service 
credit in the Maine State Retirement System for years in which they taught children with 
disabilities in private schools before such children were provided access to the public 
school system. The bill granted one year of service credit. Under the amendment, up to 
one year of service credit may be purchased at full actuarial cost. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 05/22/07 Mac:.. 
LD827 
LR 403(02) 
An Act To Allow Certain Special Education Teachers To Acquire Time from the Maine State 
Retirement System 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment" A " 
Committee: Labor 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
No fiscal impact 
Because this bill provides that a member must pay the full actuarial cost associated with purchasing the additional 
service credit, there is no cost to the Maine State Retirement System or to the State. 
LR0403(02) - Fiscal Note - Page I of I