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H.B. 512 Bill Analysis
134th General Assembly
Click here for H.B. 512’s Fiscal Note
Version: As Introduced
Primary Sponsors: Reps. Adams and Baldridge
Effective Date:
Christopher Edwards, Attorney
SUMMARY
 Increases, incrementally over a five-year period, the contribution amounts that
employers of full-time firefighters and full-time municipal police officers must make to
the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund.
DETAILED ANALYSIS
Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund employer contributions
The bill increases the contribution amounts that employers of full-time firefighters and
full-time municipal police officers must make to the Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund (OP&F).
The required employer contribution is an amount equal to a percentage of each employee’s
salary. Current law sets the contribution rate for employers of firefighters at 24% and for police
officers at 19.5%. The bill does not change the amount employees must contribute to OP&F.
The bill phases in the employer contribution rate increases over a five-year period based
on employee salaries earned in pay periods beginning in 2023 through 2027. The table below
shows the employer contribution rate increase for each year under the bill.
OP&F employer contribution rate increases under the bill1
Year Police officer Firefighter
Before December 31, 2022 19.5% 24.0%
2023 20.9% 24.5%
1 R.C. 742.33 and 742.34.
March 21, 2022
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OP&F employer contribution rate increases under the bill1
Year Police officer Firefighter
2024 22.3% 25.0%
2025 23.7% 25.5%
2026 25.1% 26.0%
Beginning on and after January 1, 2027 26.5% 26.5%
Retirement and other benefits from OP&F are funded through employer and employee
contributions and earnings from investments of those contributions.2
HISTORY
Action Date
Introduced 12-14-21
ANHB0512IN-134/ts
2See page 4 of OP&F’s 2020 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (PDF), which may be accessed by
conducting a keyword “CAFR” search on OP&F’s website: op-f.org.
P a g e |2 H.B. 512
As Introduced


Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 742.33, 742.34, 5705.19