HB 443 -- Public School Retirement System of Missouri

Sponsor:  Sander

This bill changes the laws regarding the Public School Retirement
System of Missouri (PSRS).  In its main provisions, the bill:

(1)  Changes the name of the Nonteacher School Employee
Retirement System (NTRS) to the Public Education Employee
Retirement System;

(2)  Excludes from the definition of "salary" employer-paid
premiums for medical insurance for a spouse and children and
employer contributions to deferred compensation plans;

(3)  Requires one appointee to the board of trustees to be a
member of a school board of a district covered by the retirement
system;

(4)  Allows certain information related to investment activities
to be closed under Chapter 610, RSMo, in order to protect PSRS
and NTRS investment returns;

(5)  Requires the cost of the remaining credit not paid by the
member purchasing prior service credit by June 30 of each year to
be recalculated each July 1 in lieu of charging interest.
Members filing purchase applications prior to January 1, 2006,
can elect to continue having the cost of their purchases based on
the calculation in effect prior to January 1, 2006;

(6)  Allows members who have prior nonfederal public employment
or who, while being at least age 18, were employed in a position
covered by Social Security and who worked at least 20 hours a
week on a regular basis to purchase equivalent creditable
service;

(7)  Adds a term-certain retirement option that upon a member's
death prior to receiving all guaranteed monthly payments that if
the total of all guaranteed payments to the retired individual
and their beneficiary are less than the member's accumulated
contributions, the difference will be paid to the beneficiary in
a lump sum;

(8)  Provides for the order of distribution on any benefits
payable upon the death of a member or the death of a deceased
member's beneficiary;

(9)  Specifies that if a member of PSRS has received disability
retirement, they are not eligible to elect a distribution under
the partial lump sum option plan.  This provision is already in
the NTRS;

(10)  Allows a member's beneficiary, in lieu of receiving any
benefit from the retirement system, to elect that the benefits be
payable to the deceased member's children;

(11)  Repeals Section 169.555 dealing with contribution rates.
This section is similar to Sections 169.030 and 169.620 and is
being removed to prevent confusion; and

(12)  Allows the NTRS to establish a qualified governmental
excess benefit arrangement plan (QGEBA).

Missouri House of Representatives
93rd General Assembly, 1st Regular Session
Last Updated August 25, 2005 at 1:19 pm