00                            HOUSE BILL NO. 445                                                                          
01 "An Act allowing peace officers with previous service as fish and wildlife enforcement                                  
02 officers in the Department of Public Safety to claim credit for service as peace officer                                
03 service; and providing for an effective date."                                                                          
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
05    * Section 1.  AS 39.35.370 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                          
06            (i)  A member who is vested in the system as a peace officer may convert the                                 
07       person's credited service as an employee of the Department of Public Safety for                                   
08       credited service as a fish and wildlife enforcement officer earned on or after June 23,                           
09       1983, and before July 1, 1995, to credited service as a peace officer by claiming the                             
10       service as peace officer service.  When the member claims this credited service as                                
11       peace officer service, an indebtedness of the member to the system shall be                                       
12       established.  The indebtedness is equal to the full actuarial cost of the conversion of                           
13       the credited service to treatment as peace officer service.  Any outstanding                                      
14       indebtedness that exists at the time the member is appointed to retirement will require                           

01       an actuarial adjustment to the benefits payable based upon the conversion of the                                  
02       credited service. In this subsection, "fish and wildlife enforcement officer" means a                             
03       person performing service in the specific job class identified as "fish and wildlife                              
04       enforcement officer" that existed in the Department of Public Safety, division of state                           
05       troopers, fish and wildlife protection, from fiscal year 1983 to fiscal year 1995.                                
06    * Sec. 2.  The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to                         
07 read:                                                                                                                   
08       The provisions of AS 39.35.370(i), added by sec. 1 of this Act, may not be applied to                             
09 service credit that a person claims or has claimed as a peace officer as authorized by sec. 4,                          
10 ch. 27, SLA 1983.                                                                                                       
11    * Sec. 3.  This Act takes effect July 1, 2002.