1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to retirement; revising allowable service credit for certain job-sharing 
1.3 	project of job-share program participants.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. MSRS - GENERAL; ALLOWABLE SERVICE CREDIT REVISION 
1.6 	FOR JOB-SHARE EMPLOYEES.
 1.7 	(a) An eligible person as described in paragraph (b) is entitled to have any partial 
1.8 	month allowable service credit in the general state employees retirement plan of the 
1.9 	Minnesota State Retirement System for part-time employment as a job-share employee 
1.10 	revised to be identical to allowable service credit for part-time state employment under 
1.11 	Minnesota Statutes, section 352.01, subdivision 11, that was not rendered as a job-share 
1.12 	employee.
1.13 	(b) An eligible person:
1.14 	(1) is an active member of the general state employees retirement plan or a retired 
1.15 	member of the general state employees retirement plan;
1.16 	(2) was employed in the demonstration job-sharing project under Laws 1980, 
1.17 	chapter 572, or in the job-sharing program under Minnesota Statutes 1998, sections 
1.18 	43A.41 to 43A.46;
1.19 	(3) was employed in the demonstration job-sharing project or in the job-sharing 
1.20 	program for one-half of full time; and
1.21 	(4) received partial month allowable service credit under Minnesota Statutes, section 
1.22 	352.01, subdivision 11.
2.1 	(c) To have allowable service credit revised under this section, an eligible person 
2.2 	shall provide the executive director of the Minnesota State Retirement System any 
2.3 	relevant documentation that the executive director requests.
2.4 	(d) If the eligible person is a retired member of the general state employees 
2.5 	retirement plan, the person's retirement annuity must be recomputed based on the revised 
2.6 	service credit under this section and the recomputed retirement annuity is payable on the 
2.7 	first day of the month next following the effective date of this section.
2.8 	(e) Nothing in this section may be interpreted to authorize the crediting of more than 
2.9 	one year of allowable service during any 12-month period or to authorize the payment of 
2.10 	any retroactive recomputed retirement annuity amounts.

2.11 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.