Bill Text: WV HB2803 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Increasing the number of days a retired teacher may accept employment
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 7-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-19 - To House Finance [HB2803 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2019-HB2803-Introduced.html
WEST
virginia legislature
2019 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 2803
By Delegates Campbell, Lovejoy, Canestraro, Lavender-Bowe, Higginbotham, Maynard, Pack, Cooper, Paynter and Anderson
[Introduced February 1, 2019; Referred
to the Committee on Education then Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §18-7A-38 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to increasing the number of days a retired teacher may accept employment prior to having retirement benefits reduced, from 140 days to 180 days.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 7A. STATE TEACHERS RETIREMENT SYSTEM.
§18-7A-38. Maximum number of days a retired teacher may accept employment; calculating days worked for retirants engaged in substitute teaching.
(a) The Legislature finds that:
(1) The Consolidated Public Retirement Board has determined that retired substitute teachers should not perform substitute teaching without limit;
(2) The Consolidated Public Retirement Board has established, by rule, a maximum number of days in which a retired teacher may accept employment prior to having his or her retirement benefit reduced; and
(3) There have been inconsistencies in the manner in which county boards calculate the maximum number of days established by rule.
(b) The Consolidated Public Retirement Board may not set
forth in rule a maximum number of days in which a retired teacher may accept
employment prior to having his or her retirement benefit reduced that is less
than 140 180 days.
(c) For the purpose of calculating whether a retired substitute teacher has exceeded the maximum number of days in which a substitute teacher may accept employment without incurring a reduction in his or her retirement benefit, the number of days worked shall be determined by:
(1) Totaling the number of hours worked; and
(2) Dividing by the standard number of hours that a full-time teacher works per day.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to permit retired teachers to substitute teach a total of 180 days each year without having retirement benefits reduced.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
