An Act To ]Protect Teacher R.etirement Income (AFTER DEADLINE)
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 1776
Committee: Labor
Sponsors: SIMPSON, SIROIS, NUTTING
Amends: 5 MRSA §17001

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124th MAINE LEGISLATU 
Legislative Document 
No. 1776 
S.P.683 
In Senate, February 9, 2010 
An Act To ]Protect Teacher R.etirement Income 
(AFTER DEADLINE) 
Approved for introduction by a majority of the Legislative Council pursuant to Joint Rule 
205. 
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Reference to the Committee on Labor suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Senator SIMPSON of Androscoggin. 
Cosponsored by Representative SIROIS of Turner and 
Senator: NUTTING of Androscoggin. 
Printed on recycled paper 
JOY J. O'BRIEN 
Secretary of the Senate 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec.!. 5 MRSA §17001, sub-§4, ~A, as ame~ded by PL 2009, c. 213, Pt. SSS, 
§ 1, is further amended to read: 
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A. The average annual rate of earnable compensation of a member during the 3 years 
of creditable service as an employee in Maine, not necessarily consecutive, in which 
the member's annual rate of earnable compensatiori is highest. However, if a member 
is subject to a temporary layoff or other time off without pay as a result of a 
Governor's Executive Order, time off without payor loss of pay pursuant to the 
agreements of FeblUary 15, 1991, October 23, 1991 and June 11,. 1993 between the 
Executive Department and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal 
Employees, Council 93, time off without pay pursuant to the agreement of June 11, 
1993 between the Executive Department and the Maine State Employees Association, 
days off without pay as authorized by legislative action or days off without pay 
resulting from any executive order declaring or continuing a state of emergency 
relating to the lack of an enacted budget document for fiscal years ending June 30, . 
1992 and June 30, 1993, or, if a member elects to make the payments as set forth in 
section 17704-B, as a result of days off without payor for days worked for which the 
level of pay is reduced as the result of the freezing of merit pay and longevity pay as 
authorized by legislative action, by the State Court Administrator or from executive 
order for the fiscal year beginning July 1,2002, July 1,2009 or July 1,2010, or a 
combination thereof, or, if a member is subject to days off without pay, not to exceed 
days in each fiscal year ending June 30, 1992 and June 30, 1993, as a result of 
actions taken by local school administrative units to offset school subsidy reductions, 
or, if a member is subject to days off without pay during the fiscal year beginning 
July 1, 2009 or July 1, 2010, as a result of actions taken by a local school 
administrative unit and the member elects to make the payments as set forth in 
section 17704-B or, notwithstanding section 18202, as a result of actions of a 
participating . local district to offset reductions in municipal revenue sharing or a 
combination thereof, for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1992 and June 30, 1993, the 
3-year average final compensation must be determined as if the member had not been 
t~mporarily laid off, reduced in payor provided days off~ithout pay; or 
SUMMARY 
This bill allows teachers covered by the Maine Public Employees Retirement System 
to purchase time attributable to days off without pay as a result of budget decisions made· 
by local school administrative units for fiscal years ending June 30, 2010 and June 30, 
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2011. This bill provides to teachers the same benefits available to state employees. 
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