Report Title:

Police Radio Dispatchers; Retirement Eligibility

Description:

Allows Police Radio Dispatchers to retire after at least twenty-five years of credited service.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

49

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Chapter 88, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part II to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§88-    Unreduced allowance on service retirement; when applicable. In addition to those positions identified in section 88-74(1), and notwithstanding any law in this part that requires a member to attain age fifty-five in order to qualify for an unreduced service retirement allowance, if the member has at least twenty-five years of credited service as a police radio dispatcher, of which the last five or more years prior to retirement is credited service in that capacity, then upon retirement and irrespective of age, that member's service retirement allowance shall not be reduced for actuarial purposes."

SECTION 2. Section 88-21, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:

""Police radio dispatcher": any regularly employed member of any county of the State whose principal duties are to conduct police call taking and radio dispatching."

SECTION 3. Section 88-281, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) If a member has at least twenty-five years of credited service as a sewer worker [or], as a water safety officer, or as a police radio dispatcher of which the last five or more years prior to retirement is credited in such a capacity, then the sewer worker [or], water safety officer, or police radio dispatcher shall be eligible to receive a retirement benefit unreduced for age after the member has terminated service."

SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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