2011 Senate Bill 203

Revise legislator pension detail

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 24, 2011

Introduced by Sen. Bruce Caswell (R-16)

To establish that future legislators would be eligible for retirement health coverage beginning at age 62 if they spend 14 years in the Legislature; participants would be responsible for 42 percent of the premium payments. Under current law, after they leave office legislators who have served six years get full health coverage beginning at age 55.

Referred to the Committee on Reforms, Restructuring, and Reinventing