RECENT LEGISLATION
2010

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Chapter 31, P.L. 2010

Date Approved: June 30, 2010

Effective Date: July 1, 2010

Description:

This law establishes a limit on employer contributions to the Alternate Benefit Program (ABP) by providing that there will be no contributions based on any portion of salary that is in excess of the statutory maximum salary of State cabinet officers.

The ABP is a defined contribution pension system whose members are employees of New Jersey public institutions of higher education. Currently, the State contributes 8% of the ABP member’s base salary and the member contributes 5%. The bill provides that the State will contribute at a rate equal to 8% of the member's base salary except the amount of the contribution may not exceed 8% of the maximum salary for department officers as established by law. N.J.S.A. 52:14-15.107 sets the maximum annual salary of department officers at $141,000 for calendar year 2002 and thereafter.

The law takes effect July 1, 2010.

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Chapter 3, P.L. 2010

Date Approved: March 22, 2010

Effective Date: May 21, 2010

Description:

The law makes various changes concerning payments to public employees for unused sick leave, carrying forward of vacation leave by public employees, sick leave for injury while in State service, and accidental and ordinary disability retirement for members of the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) and the Teachers’ Pension and Annuity Fund (TPAF).

The law takes effect 60 days after enactment.

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Chapter 2, P.L. 2010

Date Approved: March 22, 2010

Effective Date: May 21, 2010

Description:

This law makes changes to the State Health Benefits Program (SHBP) and the School Employees’ Health Benefits Program (SEHBP) concerning eligibility, cost sharing, choice of a plan, the application of benefit changes, the waiver of coverage, and multiple coverage under such plans. It also requires contributions toward the cost of health care benefits coverage by public employees and certain retirees.

The law takes effect 60 days after enactment.

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Chapter 1, P.L. 2010

Date Approved: March 22, 2010

Effective Date: May 21, 2010

Description:

This law makes a number of changes to different State-administered retirement systems concerning eligibility, the retirement allowance formula, the definition of compensation, the positions eligible for service credit, the non-forfeitable right to a pension, the prosecutor’s part of the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), special retirement under the Police and Firemen’s Retirement System (PFRS), and employer contributions to the pension systems.

The law takes effect 60 days after enactment.

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Chapter 338, P.L. 2009

Date Approved: January 18, 2010

Effective Date: January 18, 2010

Description:

The law extends the application of the definition of contractual salary under Chapter 85, P.L. 2009, to State employees in the Judicial Branch, employees of the State University (Rutgers), and all county or all municipal employees in this State who are members of the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) who have had their wages deferred through collective bargaining negotiations.

Chapter 85, P.L. 2009, provided that, under PERS for the period of July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2011, the term "contractual salary" within the definition of compensation will include deferred collectively negotiated wage increases in the calculation of retirement and other benefits for State employees in the Executive Branch.

This act shall take effect immediately.

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Last update: July 12, 2010