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6.525 Government of plan -- Combining service credit.
The Legislators' Retirement Plan shall be governed by KRS 21.560 and by provisions
identical in terms with those provided in KRS 21.345(1) and (3), 21.360(1), 21.370 to
21.410, 21.420, 21.425, 21.450, 21.460, 21.470, 21.480, 21.525, 21.540, and 61.552 for
the Judicial Retirement Plan, except that:
(1) Five (5) years of service as a legislator will be sufficient for vesting; and
(2) (a) A member of the Legislators' Retirement Plan may combine his service credit
with his service credit in the Teachers' Retirement System, Kentucky
Employees Retirement System, County Employees Retirement System, and
State Police Retirement System at the time of his retirement, according to the
procedure of KRS 61.680(2)(a), except that the salary used to determine final
compensation shall be based on the creditable compensation in KRS
61.510(13) for service while a member of the General Assembly whether or
not a member of the Legislators' Retirement Plan.
(b) For members contributing on or after June 20, 2005, upon retirement, a
member's accounts under the Legislators' Retirement Plan, State Police
Retirement System, Kentucky Employees Retirement System, County
Employees Retirement System, and Teachers' Retirement System shall be
consolidated for the purpose of determining eligibility and amount of benefits
as provided in KRS 61.680(2)(a) and in the same manner as for the other
retirement systems using the highest salary regardless of the system in which
it was earned. For purposes of this paragraph, "retirement" means the month
in which the member elects to begin receiving benefits or benefits become
payable due to the member's death.
(c) A member who has an account in the Legislators' Retirement Plan and the
Judicial Retirement Plan may combine his service in both plans for purposes
of determining eligibility, the amount of benefits and final compensation.
(d) A member of the Legislators' Retirement Plan may retire at the completion of
twenty-seven (27) or more years of combined service credit, so long as at least
fifteen (15) years of such credit were earned after January 1, 1960, and there
shall be no reduction in the retirement allowance because of retirement before
the age of sixty-five (65).
(e) For the purposes of this section, any reference in the KRS sections listed
above to the Judicial Retirement Plan shall also be read as a reference to the
Legislators' Retirement Plan, and any reference to the Legislators' Retirement
Plan shall also be read as a reference to the Judicial Retirement Plan.
(3) Any other statute to the contrary notwithstanding, a member of any stateadministered retirement system who has ceased to qualify for membership but
subsequently returns to a qualified status, shall, for the purposes of determining the
date of entry into the state-administered retirement system for the subsequent period
or periods of service, be deemed to have never left the retirement system.
Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 148, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended
2005 Ky. Acts ch. 86, sec. 5, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 2003 Ky. Acts
ch. 128, sec. 3, effective June 24, 2003. -- Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 90, sec. 5,
effective July 15, 2002. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 389, sec. 5, effective July 15,
1998. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 31, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended
1994 Ky. Acts ch. 266, sec. 7, effective July 15, 1994. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts
ch. 489, sec. 14, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 299, sec. 5,
effective July 15, 1988. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 326, sec. 13, effective July 1,
1982; and ch. 458, sec. 5, effective April 15, 1982. -- Created 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 407,
sec. 16, effective July 1, 1980.
2012-2014 Budget Reference. See Legislative Branch Budget, 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 19, Pt.
I, 1, (1) at 506.
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