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Ohio Rev Code § 3307.84 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 33 | Education-Libraries|Chapter 3307 | State Teachers Retirement System|Section 3307.84 | Transfer of Portion of Employer Contribution to Employers' Trust Fund to Mitigate Negative Financial Impact on System.

Effective: January 7, 2013|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 342 - 129th General Assembly|For each member participating in an STRS defined contribution plan, the state teachers retirement system may transfer to the employers' trust fund a portion of the employer contribution required under section 3307.28 of the Revised Code. If the state teachers retirement board elects to make a transfer under this section, the portion transferred shall not exceed the percentage of compensation of members described in this section for whom the contributions are being made that is determined by the board's actuary to be necessary to mitigate any negative financial impact on the state teachers retirement system of the participation of members in an STRS defined contribution plan. The remainder shall be credited as provided in section 3307.28 of the Revised Code. The state teachers retirement board may have prepared, at intervals determined by the board, an actuarial study to determine whether a transfer under this section is necessary to reflect a change in the level of the negative financial impact resulting from participation of members in an STRS defined contribution plan. The board shall increase or decrease the percentage transferred, if any, under this section to reflect the amount needed to mitigate the negative financial impact, if any, on the system based on the actuarial study. An increase or decrease in the percentage transferred shall take effect on a date determined by the board.If a transfer under this section is made, the system shall make the transfer until the unfunded actuarial accrued liability for all benefits, except health care benefits provided under section 3307.39 of the Revised Code and benefit increases provided to members and former members participating in the STRS defined benefit plan after July 13, 2000, is fully amortized, as determined by the annual actuarial valuation prepared under section 3307.51 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3307.86 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 33 | Education-Libraries|Chapter 3307 | State Teachers Retirement System|Section 3307.86 | Furnishing Contributions and Information at More Frequent Intervals.

Effective: January 7, 2013|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 342 - 129th General Assembly|The state teachers retirement system may require members participating in an STRS defined contribution plan and their employers to furnish the contributions and information required under this chapter at more frequent intervals than those required for members participating in the STRS defined benefit plan. The system has no duty to accept contributions by or on behalf of a member if a contribution or information is not furnished at such intervals.
Ohio Rev Code § 3307.87 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 33 | Education-Libraries|Chapter 3307 | State Teachers Retirement System|Section 3307.87 | Spousal Consent or Waiver.

Effective: January 7, 2013|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 342 - 129th General Assembly|(A)(1) If a member participating in an STRS defined contribution plan is married at the time any benefits under the plan commence, benefits shall be paid in accordance with division (A)(2) of this section, unless the spouse has consented under division (C) of this section to a different form of payment or the spouse's consent is waived under that division. (2) The benefits described in division (A)(1) of this section shall be paid in the form of an annuity, which shall consist of the actuarial equivalent of the member's benefits, in an amount that is payable for the life of the member and one-half of the amount continuing after the member's death to the spouse for the life of the spouse.(B) If a member participating in an STRS defined contribution plan is married at the time of the member's death, any benefits that are payable to the member shall be paid to the member's spouse, unless the spouse has consented under division (C) of this section to the designation of a different beneficiary or the spouse's consent is waived under that division.(C) Consent is valid only if it is evidenced by a signed statement that is witnessed by a notary public. Each plan may waive the requirement of consent if the spouse is incapacitated or cannot be located or for any other reason specified by the plan or in rules adopted by the state teachers retirement board. A plan shall waive the requirement of consent if a plan of payment that provides for payment in a specified amount continuing after the member's death to a former spouse is required by a court order issued prior to the effective date of the member's retirement under section 3105.171 or 3105.65 of the Revised Code or laws of another state regarding division of marital property.Consent or waiver is effective only with regard to the spouse who is the subject of the consent or waiver.
Ohio Rev Code § 3307.89 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 33 | Education-Libraries|Chapter 3307 | State Teachers Retirement System|Section 3307.89 | Offering Participation in Defined Contribution Plan to Members in Defined Benefit Plan.

Effective: January 7, 2013|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 342 - 129th General Assembly|The state teachers retirement board may offer to members participating in the STRS defined benefit plan the opportunity to also participate in one or more of the benefit options available under an STRS defined contribution plan. A member's contributions to an option shall be credited to an individual account established for the member in the defined contribution fund.
Ohio Rev Code § 3307.99 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 33 | Education-Libraries|Chapter 3307 | State Teachers Retirement System|Section 3307.99 | Penalty.

Effective: September 15, 2004|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 133 - 125th General Assembly|(A) Whoever violates division (A) of section 3307.073 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for each day of the violation.(B) Whoever violates division (B) of section 3307.073 of the Revised Code shall be imprisoned for not more than six months or fined not more than five thousand dollars, or both.(C) Fines imposed by the Ohio elections commission under this section shall be paid into the Ohio elections commission fund created under section 3513.10 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3309.011 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 33 | Education-Libraries|Chapter 3309 | Public School Employees Retirement System|Section 3309.011 | Exclusions From Definition of Employee.

Effective: April 12, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 442 - 133rd General Assembly|"Employee" as defined in division (B) of section 3309.01 of the Revised Code, does not include any of the following: (A) Any person having a license or registration issued pursuant to sections 3319.22 to 3319.31 of the Revised Code and employed in a public school in this state in an educational position, as determined by the state board of education, under programs provided for by federal acts or regulations and financed in whole or in part from federal funds, but for which no licensure requirements for the position can be made under the provisions of such federal acts or regulations; (B) Any person who participates in an alternative retirement plan established under Chapter 3305. of the Revised Code; (C) Any person who elects to transfer from the school employees retirement system to the public employees retirement system under section 3309.312 of the Revised Code; (D) Any person whose full-time employment by the university of Akron as a state university law enforcement officer pursuant to section 3345.04 of the Revised Code commences on or after September 16, 1998; (E) Any person described in division (B) of section 3309.013 of the Revised Code; (F) Any person described in division (D) of section 145.011 of the Revised Code; (G) Any person described in division (B)(1)(b) of section 3307.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3309.013 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 33 | Education-Libraries|Chapter 3309 | Public School Employees Retirement System|Section 3309.013 | Exclusions From Definition of Employee Under Orc Section 3309.01.

Effective: April 6, 2017|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 520 - 131st General Assembly|(A) As used in this section, "operator" has the same meaning as in section 3314.02 of the Revised Code.(B) "Employee," as defined in division (B) of section 3309.01 of the Revised Code, does not include either of the following:(1) Any person initially employed on or after July 1, 2016, by a community school operator and for whom the operator withholds and pays employee and employer taxes pursuant to 26 U.S.C. 3101(a) and 3111(a) beginning with the first paycheck after commencing initial employment;(2) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, any person who is a former employee of a community school operator who is reemployed on or after July 1, 2016, by that operator and for whom the operator withholds and pays employee and employer taxes pursuant to 26 U.S.C. 3101(a) and 3111(a) beginning with the first paycheck after commencing reemployment with that operator.(C) Division (B)(2) of this section does not apply to any person who was employed by the same operator at any time within the period of July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016, and whose date of reemployment is before July 1, 2017.(D) This section applies only to a community school operator that was withholding and paying employee and employer taxes pursuant to 26 U.S.C. 3101(a) and 3111(a) on or before February 1, 2016, for persons employed in the school.
Ohio Rev Code § 3309.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 33 | Education-Libraries|Chapter 3309 | Public School Employees Retirement System|Section 3309.02 | Credit for Military Service.

Effective: October 29, 1996|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 450 - 121st General Assembly|(A) As used in this section, "armed forces" of the United States includes both:(1) Army, navy, air force, marine corps, coast guard, auxiliary corps as established by congress, army nurse corps, navy nurse corps, red cross nurse serving with the army, navy, air force, or hospital service of the United States, full-time service with the American red cross in a combat zone, and such other service as is designated by congress as included therein;(2) Personnel of the Ohio national guard, the Ohio military reserve, the Ohio naval militia, and the reserve components of the armed forces enumerated in division (A)(1) of this section who are called to active duty pursuant to an executive order issued by the president of the United States or an act of congress.(B) Upon presentation of an honorable discharge or certificate of service, and subject to rules adopted by the school employees retirement board, any member of the school employees retirement system who was a member with not less than one year of unadjusted service credit prior to active service in the armed forces of the United States subsequent to October 31, 1965, and who returns to service as an employee or as an employee in a capacity covered by either the public employees retirement system or the state teachers retirement system within two years after receiving such discharge or release, and establishes one year of service credit, shall have such service considered as prior service, provided that the total amount of such service granted by the board shall not exceed ten years. This section shall not serve to cancel any military service credit earned or granted prior to November 1, 1965.(C) A member of the school employees retirement system is ineligible to receive service credit under this section for any year of military service credit used in the calculation of any retirement benefit currently being paid to the member or payable in the future under any other retirement program, except social security, or used to obtain service credit pursuant to section 3309.021 or 3309.022 of the Revised Code. At the time such credit is requested, the member shall certify on a form supplied by the retirement board that the member does and will conform to this requirement. This division does not cancel any military service credit earned prior to March 15, 1979.
Ohio Rev Code § 3309.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 33 | Education-Libraries|Chapter 3309 | Public School Employees Retirement System|Section 3309.03 | School Employees Retirement System - Board.

Effective: September 15, 2004|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 133 - 125th General Assembly|A school employees retirement system is hereby established for the employees as defined in section 3309.01 of the Revised Code, which shall include the several funds created and placed under the management of the school employees retirement board for the payment of retirement allowances and other benefits provided in Chapter 3309. of the Revised Code. The board may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, and do all things necessary to carry out Chapter 3309. of the Revised Code. All of its business shall be transacted, all of its funds invested, all warrants for money drawn and payments made, and all of its cash, securities, and other property shall be held in the name of the board, or in the name of its nominee, provided that nominees are authorized by retirement board resolution for such purposes. The board may take all appropriate action to avoid payment by the system or its members of federal or state income taxes on contributions to the system or amounts earned on those contributions.If the Ohio retirement study council establishes a uniform format for any report the board is required to submit to the council, the board shall submit the report in that format.
Ohio Rev Code § 3309.031 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 33 | Education-Libraries|Chapter 3309 | Public School Employees Retirement System|Section 3309.031 | System Consists of Plans Established by Chapter.

Effective: April 9, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 270 - 123rd General Assembly|The school employees retirement system shall consist of the plans described in section 3309.18 to 3309.70 of the Revised Code and the plan or plans established under section 3309.81 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3309.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 33 | Education-Libraries|Chapter 3309 | Public School Employees Retirement System|Section 3309.04 | General Administration and Management Vested in Board.

Effective: August 18, 2019|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 221 - 132nd General Assembly|The general administration and management of the school employees retirement system and making effective Chapter 3309. of the Revised Code are hereby vested in the school employees retirement board which may adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code and may authorize its administrative officers, or committees composed of members of said board, to act for the board in accordance with such policies and subject to subsequent approval by the board.Notice of proposed rules shall be given to interested parties and rules adopted by the board shall be published and otherwise made available. When it files a rule with the joint committee on agency rule review pursuant to section 111.15 of the Revised Code, the board shall submit to the Ohio retirement study council a copy of the full text of the rule, and if applicable, a copy of the rule summary and fiscal analysis required by division (B) of section 106.024 of the Revised Code.All rules adopted pursuant to this chapter, prior to August 20, 1976, shall be published and made available to interested parties by January 1, 1977.
Ohio Rev Code § 3309.041 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 33 | Education-Libraries|Chapter 3309 | Public School Employees Retirement System|Section 3309.041 | Travel Expense Policies - Bonus Policy - Budget.

Effective: September 15, 2004|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 133 - 125th General Assembly|The school employees retirement board shall do all of the following:(A) In consultation with the Ohio ethics commission, review any existing policy regarding the travel and payment of travel expenses of members and employees of the school employees retirement board and adopt rules in accordance with section 3309.04 of the Revised Code establishing a new or revised policy regarding travel and payment of travel expenses. Not less than sixty days before adopting a new or revised policy, the board shall submit the policy to the Ohio retirement study council for review.(B) If the board intends to award a bonus to any employee of the board, adopt rules in accordance with section 3309.04 of the Revised Code establishing a policy regarding employee bonuses;(C) Provide copies of the rules adopted under divisions (A) and (B) of this section to each member of the Ohio retirement study council;(D) Submit to the Ohio retirement study council a proposed operating budget, including an administrative budget for the board, for the next immediate fiscal year and adopt that budget not earlier than sixty days after it is submitted to the council;(E) Submit to the council a plan describing how the board will improve the dissemination of public information pertaining to the board.
Ohio Rev Code § 3309.042 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 33 | Education-Libraries|Chapter 3309 | Public School Employees Retirement System|Section 3309.042 | Ethics Policy - Commission Approval - Ethics Training.

Effective: September 15, 2004|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 133 - 125th General Assembly|The school employees retirement board shall, in consultation with the Ohio ethics commission, develop an ethics policy to govern board members and employees in the performance of their official duties. The board shall submit this policy to the commission for approval.The commission shall review the policy and, if the commission determines that the policy is adequate, approve the policy. If the commission determines that the policy is inadequate, it shall specify the revisions to be made and the board shall submit a revised policy. If the commission approves the revised policy, the board shall adopt it. If not, the board shall make any further revisions required by the commission and adopt the policy. Not less than sixty days before adopting the policy, the board shall submit it to the Ohio retirement study council for review.The board periodically shall provide ethics training to members and employees of the board. The training shall include training regarding the requirements and prohibitions of Chapter 102. of the Revised Code and sections 2921.42 and 2921.43 of the Revised Code and any other training the board considers appropriate.The board shall establish a procedure to ensure that each employee of the board is informed of the procedure for filing a complaint alleging violation of Chapter 102. of the Revised Code or section 2921.42 or 2921.43 of the Revised Code with the Ohio ethics commission or the appropriate prosecuting attorney.
Ohio Rev Code § 3309.044 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 33 | Education-Libraries|Chapter 3309 | Public School Employees Retirement System|Section 3309.044 | Selection of Internal Auditor.

Effective: September 15, 2004|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 133 - 125th General Assembly|The school employees retirement board shall appoint a committee to oversee the selection of an internal auditor. The committee shall select one or more persons for employment as an internal auditor. The board shall employ the person or persons selected by the committee.The committee shall consist of the following board members: one retirant member, one employee member, and one other member. The committee shall annually prepare and submit to the Ohio retirement study council a report of its actions during the preceding year.
Ohio Rev Code § 3309.051 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 33 | Education-Libraries|Chapter 3309 | Public School Employees Retirement System|Section 3309.051 | Orientation Program Required for New Members - Continuing Education.

Effective: January 7, 2013|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 341 - 129th General Assembly|Each member of the school employees retirement board shall, not later than ninety days after commencing service as a board member, complete the orientation program component of the retirement board member education program established under section 171.50 of the Revised Code. Each member of the board who has served a year or longer as a board member shall, not less than twice each year, attend one or more programs that are part of the continuing education component of the retirement board member education program established under section 171.50 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3309.052 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 33 | Education-Libraries|Chapter 3309 | Public School Employees Retirement System|Section 3309.052 | Members With Excessive Travel Expenses Ineligible for Another Term.

Effective: September 15, 2004|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 133 - 125th General Assembly|A person who served as an elected or appointed member of the school employees retirement board for one or more entire fiscal years in fiscal years 2000, 2001, or 2002 is ineligible for re-election or reappointment to the board if the board paid travel-related expenses of the person or reimbursed the person for travel-related expenses that averaged more than ten thousand dollars annually for those fiscal years.
Ohio Rev Code § 3309.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 33 | Education-Libraries|Chapter 3309 | Public School Employees Retirement System|Section 3309.06 | Board Elections.

Effective: April 6, 2007|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 272 - 126th General Assembly|(A) Elections for employee and retirant members of the school employees retirement board shall be held on the first Monday of March. Terms of office of the employee and retirant members of the board shall be for four years each, commencing on the first day of July following the election and ending on the thirtieth day of June. The initial terms of the first retirant member and the new employee member shall commence on July 1, 1984, and end on June 30, 1988.(B) The initial election of the second retirant member shall be held at the first election that occurs later than ninety days after September 15, 2004. Subsequent elections shall be held each fourth year thereafter.(C) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, if a vacancy occurs during the term of an elected member of the board, the remaining members of the board shall elect a successor member. On certification of the election results in accordance with rules adopted under section 3309.075 of the Revised Code, the successor member shall hold office until the first day of the new term that follows the next board election that occurs not less than ninety days after the successor member's election, or until the end of the term for which the successor member was elected, whichever is sooner. The successor member shall qualify for board membership under the same division of section 3309.05 of the Revised Code as the member's predecessor in office. Elections under this division shall be conducted in accordance with rules adopted under section 3309.075 of the Revised Code.(D) Employee members or retirant members of the board who fail to attend the meetings of the board for four months or longer, without being excused, shall be considered as having resigned and successors shall be elected for their unexpired terms pursuant to division (C) of this section. If as a result of changed circumstances the retirant member would no longer qualify for membership on the board as a retirant member, the office shall be considered vacant, and a successor retirant member shall be elected pursuant to division (C) of this section.(E) A successor member need not be elected under division (C) of this section for a vacancy that occurs on or after the first day of March of the year in which the vacated term ends.