ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

HB 2036: ASRS; temporary personnel service

Sponsor: Representative Livingston, LD 28

Committee on Ways & Means

Overview

Amends the credit for military service in the Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS) to include temporary personnel covered by the Civilian Reservist Emergency Workforce Act of 2021 (CREW act).

History

ASRS employers are currently required to make employer and employee contributions for no more than 60 months for a member who is called to active-duty military service (A.R.S. § 38-745).

The CREW act protects the job rights of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reservists while they are deployed to disasters, emergencies and trainings through the inclusion of FEMA reservists under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) (FEMA.gov). Through its inclusion under USERRA FEMA reservists are able to make employee contributions to pension benefit plans during the period beginning with the date of reemployment and whose duration is three times the period of the person's service in the uniformed services, however the payment period cannot exceed five years (38 U.S.C. § 4318).

Provisions

1. Expands credited service in ASRS to temporary personnel who are called to serve by a federal agency. (Sec. 1)

2. Adds the CREW act to statute. (Sec. 1)

3. Makes technical changes. (Sec. 1)

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