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SSHB 164: "An Act providing that employment as a legislator or with the National Education Association is not credited service under the teachers' retirement system; prohibiting membership in the teachers' retirement system for holders of limited certificates; removing teachers holding limited certificates to teach Alaska Native language or culture from membership in the teachers' retirement system; and repealing a provision permitting members of the teachers' retirement system to count unused sick leave credit as credited service." 

00SPONSOR SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 164                                                                               
01 "An Act providing that employment as a legislator or with the National Education                                        
02 Association is not credited service under the teachers' retirement system;                                              
03 prohibiting membership in the teachers' retirement system for holders of limited                                        
04 certificates; removing teachers holding limited certificates to teach Alaska Native                                     
05 language or culture from membership in the teachers' retirement system; and                                             
06 repealing a provision permitting members of the teachers' retirement system to                                          
07 count unused sick leave credit as credited service."                                                                    
08 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
09    * Section 1.  AS 14.25.040(a) is amended to read:                                                                    
10  (a)  Unless a teacher or member has elected to participate in the optional                                            
11 university retirement program under AS 14.40.661 - 14.40.799, a teacher or member                                       
12 contracting for service with a participating employer is subject to this chapter.                                      
13 However, beginning on the effective date of this Act, a limited certificate issued                                      
14 under AS 14.20.025 does not entitle the holder to membership under this chapter.                                       



01    * Sec. 2.  AS 14.25.220(16) is amended to read:                                                                      
02   (16)  "employer" means a public school district, the Board of Regents                                                
03 of the University of Alaska, the Department of Education, or [THE NATIONAL                                            
04 EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF ALASKA,] the Regional Resource Centers [, OR                                                   
05 THE STATE LEGISLATURE WITH RESPECT TO A STATE LEGISLATOR WHO                                                            
06 ELECTS MEMBERSHIP UNDER AS 14.25.040(b)];                                                                               
07    * Sec. 3.  AS 14.25.040(b), 14.25.040(c), 14.25.045, 14.25.048, 14.25.115(a),                                        
08 14.25.220(6)(B), 14.25.220(21)(D), 14.25.220(21)(F), and 14.25.220(40)(D) are repealed.                                 
09    * Sec. 4.  This Act applies to persons who first become members of the teachers' retirement                          
10 system on or after the effective date of this Act.