Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky
- Session
- 2026RS
- Chamber
- lower
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Actuarial Analysis, Cities, Counties, Education, Elementary And Secondary, Emergency Medical Services, Firefighters And Fire Departments, Local Government, Police, City And County, Retirement And Pensions, Retroactive Legislation, Sheriffs, State Employees
- Introduced / first action
- 2026-01-07 05:00:00
Source-supplied abstracts
Amend KRS 61.621 to allow a member of a state-administered retirement system who works in a nonhazardous position that could be certified as a hazardous position and who receives a duty-related injury to be eligible for the same minimum retirement benefit provided to members who receive a hazardous disability retirement; amend KRS 61.702 to allow Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) members working in a nonhazardous position that could be certified as a hazardous position who receive a duty-related injury to receive the same health benefit provided to members who receive a hazardous disability retirement; amend KRS 78.5536 to allow County Employees Retirement System (CERS) members working in a nonhazardous position that could be certified as a hazardous position who receive a duty-related injury to receive the same health benefit provided to members who receive a hazardous disability retirement; allow certain persons whose last day of paid employment was on or after January 1, 2022, but prior to the effective date of the Act to apply for benefits; RETROACTIVE.
Sponsors
- A. Tackett Laferty (primary), primary
- J. Blanton (primary), primary
- R. Dotson (primary), primary
- C. Fugate (primary), primary
- A. Gentry (primary), primary
- D. Gordon (primary), primary
- P. Griffee (primary), primary
- D. Hale (primary), primary
- T. Hampton (primary), primary
- M. Hart (primary), primary
- J. Hodgson (primary), primary
- N. Kulkarni (primary), primary
- B. McCool (primary), primary
- B. Wesley (primary), primary