NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 1116

HOUSE BILL 1170

AN ACT TO ALLOW PRIOR SERVICE CREDIT FOR TEMPORARY STATE EMPLOYMENT IN THE TEACHERS' AND STATE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 135-4 is amended by adding a new subsection (p) to read as follows:

"(p)      Credit for prior temporary State employment. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Chapter, a member may purchase service credit for temporary State employment upon completion of 10 years of membership service and subject to the condition that the member had been classified as a temporary employee for more than three years. Each employer shall certify to the Board of Trustees that an employee is eligible to purchase this service credit prior to the member making payment. Payment for the service credit shall be in a single lump sum based upon the amount the member would have contributed if he had been properly classified as a permanent employee and been a member of this retirement system."

Sec. 2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of State Treasurer, Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the fiscal year 1981-82 for the purpose of making the employer's contribution for those employees with more than three years temporary service eligible to purchase their service pursuant to Section 1. This payment is conditional upon the member making the payment required in Section 1 of this act.

Sec. 3. The provisions of this act shall be implemented to the extent appropriations are provided by the General Assembly but nothing herein contained shall be construed to obligate the General Assembly to appropriate additional funds.

Sec. 4. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of October, 1981.