May 12, 2009, Introduced by Rep. Smith and referred to the Committee on Labor.
A bill to amend 1943 PA 240, entitled
"State employees' retirement act,"
by amending section 45 (MCL 38.45), as amended by 2002 PA 743.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 45. As used in sections 45 to 47:
(a) "Covered position" means any of the following:
(i) On or after January 1, 1989, a position in the classified
civil service with a classification of corrections officer;
resident unit officer; corrections medical aide; corrections shift
supervisor; corrections security specialist; deputy prison warden;
or departmental administrator-prison warden.
(ii) On or after January 1, 1989, a position that is assigned
to a work station inside the security perimeter of a state
correctional facility designated as "medium", "close", or
"maximum".
(iii) On or after January 1, 1989, a position within a state
correctional facility that requires the employee to be in direct
contact with prisoners for more than 50% of the employee's work
time performing supervisory or disciplinary duties including 1 or
more of the following:
(A) Supervising prisoners in the performance of tasks.
(B) Supervising prisoners for the purpose of enforcing the
facility's rules.
(C) Direct participation in the disciplinary process.
(iv) On or after January 1, 1989, a position with the center
for forensic psychiatry that is classified by civil service as
forensics security aide IIB, forensics security aide IIIB,
forensics security supervisor IVB, forensics security supervisor
VB, forensics security supervisor VIB, or forensics supervisor VII,
and on and after January 1, 2009, a position with the center for
forensic psychiatry that is classified by civil service as
registered nurse manager 13.
(v) A position that was a covered position under this section
before January 1, 1989, that is excluded by subparagraphs (i), (ii),
(iii), and (iv), if and only as long as the person in the position on
January 1, 1989, continues in the position after January 1, 1989.
(b) "Supplemental member" means a member who is employed in a
covered position.
(c) "Covered service" means credited service acquired in a
covered position.
(d) "Supplemental final average compensation" means 1/3 of the
compensation paid a supplemental member during the period of 3
consecutive years of the member's covered service producing the
highest average and contained within the member's last 10 years of
credited service immediately preceding the date the member's
employment in a covered position last terminates.
(e) "State correctional facility" means a facility under the
jurisdiction of the department of corrections that has a
designation of "maximum", "close", "medium", "minimum", "prison
camp", or "correction center".