2021 Session Pension/Retirement Bills
Other bills that may be of interest
2021 Session Pension/Retirement Bills
Listed in descending Senate File order with recent intros appearing first (House bills with no Senate companion are last). Last updated: 5/13/2021
| Senate File | House File | Plan | Description | LCPR Hearing |
Summary/ Fiscal Note |
LCPR Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF2546-Pappas | -- | MSRS, PERA, TRA, SPTRFA | Authorizes advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) to provide disability assessments.. | -- | -- | -- |
| SF1712-Rosen | HF1758-Nelson, M. | Multiple plans | 2021 Pension & Retirement bill. | 5/04/21 | Bill page | Amended, Passed |
| SF2485-Bigham | -- | Correctional plans | Establishes a working group to consider changes to the pension benefits for 911 telecommunicators. | 5/04/21 | Summary | Amended, passed |
| SF2417-Rosen | HF2507-Dettmer | MSRS | Extends the Rule of 90 by one month. | -- | -- | -- |
| SF2418-Rosen | HF2506-Dettmer | MSRS | Extends the Rule of 90 by one month, member pays actuarial cost. | -- | -- | -- |
| SF2405-Rosen | HF2514-O'Driscoll | MSRS Unclassified | Extends the grandfather provision for the use of factors effective in 2016 in computing annuities for retirees who are at least age 63 or have at least 26 years of service. | 5/04/21 | Summary | Amended, passed |
| SF2252-Howe | HF1107-Murphy | PERA SVF | Permits the allocation of fire state aid between the SVF plan and the municipalities. | 3/16/2021 | Summary | Passed |
| SF2198-Bigham | HF2585-Berg | PERA Correctional | Transfers 911 telecommunicators from the general plan to the correctional plan. See SF2485-Bigham for working group | -- | -- | -- |
| SF2098-Pratt | HF2188-Mortensen | MSRS Correctional | Transfers a state employee's service credit from the general plan to the correctional plan. | 3/23/2021 | Summary | Passed |
| SF2056-Rosen | HF2145-Nelson, M. | Volunteer Fire Relief Associations |
Amends current law as recommended by the State Auditor's fire relief association working group. | 3/16/2021 | Summary | Passed |
| SF1993-Howe | HF2163-O'Driscoll | PERA | Extends the time period for making the member payment on military service credit purchases. | 3/23/2021 | Summary | Amended, passed |
| SF1925-Abeler | HF2192-Heinrich | Ramsey Vol. Fire Relief Assoc. |
Provides for full vesting and distribution of accounts to firefighters assigned to the Nowthen fire station, among other changes to assist the new Nowthen fire department. | 3/16/2021 | Summary | Passed |
| SF1712-Rosen | HF1758-Nelson, M. | PERA | 2021 administrative bill. NOTE: This will serve as the vehicle for the omnibus pension & retirement bill | 3/2/2021 | Summary | Amended, Passed |
| SF1454-Pappas | HF1497-Feist | MSRS, PERA | Revises coverage requirements for MSRS for employees with H-1b and E-3 visa status to comply with federal law and clarifies the same requirement for PERA. | 3/2/2021 | Summary | Passed |
| SF1452-Frentz | HF1291-Murphy | Judges Plan | Reduces the postretirement adjustment and eliminates the triggers that would increase the postretirement adjustment upon attainment of specified funding. | 5/04/21 | Summary | Passed |
| SF1434-Mathews | HF671-Mekeland | TRA/IRAP | Authorizes an eligible St. Cloud State University employee to elect TRA coverage and receive retroactive coverage. | -- | -- | -- |
| SF1303-Pappas | HF1459-Nelson, M. | St. Paul Teachers | Delays the employee contribution rate increase and makes administrative changes. | 3/23/2021 | Summary | Passed |
| SF1167-Rosen | HF1387-Nelson, M. | PERA Police & Fire | Modifies disability provisions for members who are 55 and older. | -- | -- | -- |
| SF1149-Newton | HF2065-Koegel | PERA Police & Fire | Provides duty disability benefits in certain cases. | -- | -- | |
| SF976-Pappas | HF1258-Becker-Finn | Secure Choice | Establishes the Minnesota Secure Choice Retirement Program. | 3/2/2021 | Summary | No action |
| SF950-Pappas | HF407-Nelson, M. | MSRS | Increases the benefit for a former Dept. of Labor & Industry employee due to erroneous benefit estimate information from MSRS. | 3/16/2021 | Summary | Passed |
| SF609-Goggin | HF419-Drazkowski | Police/Fire aid | Modifies the formula for the distribution of supplemental state aid to relief associations. | 3/23/2021 | Summary | Tabled |
| SF246-Pappas | HF146-Nelson, M. | Supplemental plans | Increasing the limits for contributions by governmental subdivisions to supplemental pension funds and other retirement funds on behalf of laborers, plumbers and pipefitters, and operating engineers who are covered by collective bargaining agreements; authorizing limited contributions to supplemental pension funds and other retirement funds on behalf of other building trades employees. | -- | -- | -- |
| SF83-Koran | HF13-Johnson | PERA | Permits service credit purchase for omitted service for Cambridge-Isanti school bus drivers. | -- | -- | -- |
| -- | HF2610-Rasmusson | VFRAs | Requires volunteer firefighters relief association special fund assets to be invested with the State Board of Investment. | -- | -- | -- |
| -- | HF1678-Youakim | PERA | Reinstates the state aid to local governments to fund increased employer contributions to PERA enacted in 1997. | 3/2/2021 | Summary | Passed |
| -- | HF899-Nelson, M. | PERA | Assesses withdrawal liability on hospitals and nursing homes that privatize. | -- | -- | -- |
Other bills that may be of interest to public employees, retirees, and other interested parties
| Senate File | House File | Plan | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| SF1829-Chamberlain | -- | Related Interest | Abolishes the Perpich Center for the Arts; deletes references to the Perpich Center for Arts Education from retirement statutes (Sections 352.01 & 354.05). |
| SF1622-Frentz | HF1629-Lillie; Nelson, M. | Related Interest | Ratifies a memorandum of understanding relating to early retirement incentives (MAPE employees). |
| SF1547-Jasinski | HF1577-Koznick | Related Interest | Requires the Department of Labor & Industry to study the adequacy of benefits for disabled or injured police officers. |
| SF1204-Howe | -- | Related Interest | Creates an open appropriation from the general fund to the public safety officer's benefit account; provides for reimbursement for continued health insurance coverage. |
| SF974-Kiffmeyer | HF1032-Nelson, M. | Related Interest | State government finance bill. Contains budgets for the LCPR (under the Legislative Coordinating Commission) and the retirement funds). |
| SF441-Eichorn | -- | Related Interest | Provides for an unlimited subtraction of Social Security and other retirement benefits income. |
| SF273-Goggin | HF150-Jurgens | Related Interest | Provides for an unlimited subtraction of Social Security and other retirement benefits income. |