ON APRIL 1, 2024, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 2682, AS AMENDED.
AMENDMENT #1 rewrites the bill to, instead, do the following:
(1) Until June 30, 2026, authorizes a retired member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system or of a superseded system, or of a local retirement fund established under state law, to be reemployed in a position covered by the retirement system without the loss or suspension of the retired member's retirement benefits if the member meets the following criteria:
(A) The member retired on an unreduced service retirement allowance under state law relative to retirement plan membership benefits;
(B) The retired member is reemployed as a law enforcement officer with a law enforcement agency for the sole purpose of serving full-time as a school resource officer, at a public school in an LEA that serves students in any of the grades K-12;
(C) The retired member is not reemployed until the expiration of at least 60 calendar days from the member's effective date of retirement;
(D) The retired member's reemployment must not exceed one year; however, the retired member may be reemployed for an additional one-year period if the conditions in this section are met for each period of reemployment. A retiree must not be reemployed pursuant to this bill for more than two years;
(E) To fund the liability created by this bill, the retired member's new employer must pay to TCRS, during each period of reemployment, a payment equal to the amount the employer would have contributed to the retirement system had the retired member been a contributing member of the retirement system during the period of reemployment;
(F) The retired member is not eligible to accrue additional retirement benefits as a result of the member's reemployment pursuant to this bill;
(G) Upon the reemployment of the retired member, the retired member's new employer must (i) notify the retirement system of the member's reemployment pursuant to this bill and provide any documents or information required by the retirement system; (ii) certify, in writing, to the retirement system that the retired member has the requisite experience and training for the position to be filled and that no other qualified person is available to fill the position; and (iii) certify, in writing, to the retirement system that the employer is employing the retired member to serve full-time as a school resource officer at a public school in this state that serves students in any of the grades K-12; and
(H) The retiree is not drawing disability retirement benefits under state law relative to disability retirement; and
(2) If an LEA or multiple LEAs in the jurisdiction of a law enforcement agency have multiple full-time school resource officer positions available at one or more public schools in the LEA or LEAs, authorizes a law enforcement agency to employ a retired member for each position, if the conditions of (A)-(H) above are met.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 8-36-809(b)(2), 8-36-809