The bill amends Section 8-3-11 of the General Laws concerning allowances to the surviving spouses, domestic partners, or minor children of deceased justices of the Supreme, Superior, and Family Courts. It establishes that when a magistrate of the Superior Court, Family Court, District Court, or Traffic Tribunal dies during active service while eligible for retirement under the Employees' Retirement System of Rhode Island (ERSRI), their surviving spouse or domestic partner will receive, for their lifetime and as long as they remain unmarried or not in a domestic partnership, a benefit equal to the "ERSRI option #1 100% survivor option." The date of retirement for the purposes of calculating this benefit will be the date of the magistrate's death, and the benefits will be administered through ERSRI. This act will take effect upon passage.

Statutes affected:
1153: 8-3-11