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 if 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, an amount equal to the "ERSRI option #1 100% survivor option." The date of ERSRI retirement will be calculated as the date of the magistrate's death, and the survivor benefit will be paid by and through ERSRI as the magistrate would have been entitled to if retired before their date of death. The act will take effect upon passage.

Statutes affected:
1153: 8-3-11