Assembly Bill No. 68–Committee on Government Affairs

 

February 10, 2003

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Referred to Committee on Government Affairs

 

SUMMARY—Revises definition of “compensation” for purposes of provisions governing Public Employees’ Retirement System. (BDR 23‑725)

 

FISCAL NOTE:  Effect on Local Government: Yes.

                           Effect on the State: Yes.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to the Public Employees’ Retirement System; revising the definition of “compensation” to include certain payments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1  Section 1. NRS 286.025 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2  286.025  1.  Except as otherwise provided by specific statute,

1-3  “compensation” is the salary paid to a member by his principal

1-4  public employer.

1-5  2.  The term includes:

1-6  (a) Base pay, which is the monthly rate of pay excluding all

1-7  fringe benefits.

1-8  (b) Additional payment for longevity, shift differential,

1-9  hazardous duty, work performed on a holiday if it does not exceed

1-10  the working hours of the normal workweek or pay period for that

1-11  employee, holding oneself ready for duty while off duty and

1-12  returning to duty after one’s regular working hours.

1-13      (c) Payment for extra duty assignments [if it] regardless of

1-14  whether:

1-15          (1) It is the standard practice of the public employer to

1-16  include such pay in the employment contract or official job

2-1  description for the calendar or academic year in which it is paid [and

2-2  such] ; or

2-3       (2) Such pay is specifically included in the member’s

2-4  employment contract or official job description.

2-5  (d) The aggregate compensation paid by two separate public

2-6  employers if one member is employed half time or more by one, and

2-7  half time or less by the other, if the total does not exceed full-time

2-8  employment, if the duties of both positions are similar and if the

2-9  employment is pursuant to a continuing relationship between the

2-10  employers.

2-11      (e) Payments to:

2-12          (1) A member who is employed by a school district for less

2-13  than 12 months during a school year for any service rendered to

2-14  the school district after the expiration of the employment contract

2-15  for that period of employment and before the beginning of the

2-16  next school year; or

2-17          (2) A member of the professional staff of the University and

2-18  Community College System of Nevada employed for the academic

2-19  year who is employed for less than 12 months during a fiscal year

2-20  for any service rendered to the University and Community College

2-21  System of Nevada after the expiration of the employment contract

2-22  for that period of employment and before the beginning of the

2-23  next fiscal year.

2-24      3.  The term does not include any type of payment not

2-25  specifically described in subsection 2.

2-26      Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2003.

 

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