1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to retirement; public employees police and fire retirement plan; clarifying 
1.3 	plan coverage for certain Hennepin Healthcare System supervisors; amending 
1.4 	Minnesota Statutes 2016, section 353.64, subdivision 10.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2016, section 353.64, subdivision 10, is amended to read:
1.7 		Subd. 10.Pension coverage for Hennepin Healthcare System, Inc.; paramedics and 
1.8 	emergency medical technicians. An employee of Hennepin Healthcare System, Inc. is a 
1.9 	member of the public employees police and fire retirement plan under sections 353.63 to 
1.10 	353.68 if the person is:
1.11 	(1) certified as a paramedic or emergency medical technician by the state under section 
1.12 	144E.28, subdivision 4;
1.13 	(2) employed part time, defined as working more than 40 hours every pay period but 
1.14 	less than 80 hours, or full time, working a minimum of 80 hours every pay period, by 
1.15 	Hennepin County as:
1.16 	(i) a paramedic or;
1.17 	(ii) an emergency medical technician by Hennepin County; or
1.18 	(iii) a supervisor or manager of paramedics or emergency medical technicians; and
1.19 	(3) not eligible for coverage under the agreement signed between the state and the 
1.20 	secretary of the federal Department of Health and Human Services making the provisions 
1.21 	of the federal Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Act applicable to paramedics 
1.22 	and emergency medical technicians because the person's position is excluded after that date 
2.1 	from application under United States Code, title 42, sections 418(d)(5)(A) and 418(d)(8)(D), 
2.2 	and section 355.07.
2.3 	Hennepin Healthcare System, Inc. shall deduct the employee contribution from the salary 
2.4 	of each full-time paramedic and emergency medical technician it employs as required by 
2.5 	section 353.65, subdivision 2, shall make the employer contribution for each part-time and 
2.6 	each full-time paramedic and emergency medical technician it employs as required by 
2.7 	section 353.65, subdivision 3, and shall meet the employer recording and reporting 
2.8 	requirements in section 353.65, subdivision 4.

2.9 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective July 1, 2017.