16-25-200
Section 16-25-200 Increase in benefits to members and beneficiaries. (a) Commencing October
1, 2006, there is provided a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in the amount of seven percent
of the current gross benefit, but not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) per month to each
person currently receiving benefits whose effective date of retirement was prior to October
1, 2005, for purposes of receiving benefits, and to certain beneficiaries of deceased members
and deceased retirees currently receiving survivor benefits, if the effective date of retirement
or death for the deceased retiree or deceased member was prior to October 1, 2005, for purposes
of receiving benefits from the Teachers' Retirement System. (b) Any future survivor allowance
shall be adjusted as provided in the members' original option selection for those eligible
retirees who have selected a monthly survivor allowance payable to a designated beneficiary
upon the death of the retiree, or otherwise provided by law in the...
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36-27-55.1
Section 36-27-55.1 Purchase of credit for prior service with Alabama State Council on the Arts.
(a) Any active and contributing member of the Employees' Retirement System may purchase credit
in the Employees' Retirement System for prior service with the Alabama State Council on the
Arts if the member has not received credit in the system for the same prior service and has
not vested or otherwise become eligible to receive a retirement benefit by using the same
prior service credit in another pension plan offered by the council. (b) A member of the Employees'
Retirement System who is eligible to purchase any prior service credit under subsection (a)
of this section shall receive the credit if he or she pays into the system on or before his
or her date of retirement, an amount of five percent of the greater of the member's current
annual earnable compensation or average final compensation, whichever is greater, as determined
by the actuary for the system, for the entire period of prior...
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36-27-58.1
Section 36-27-58.1 Purchase of credit for certain members away from work due to job-related
injury. (a) Notwithstanding any other laws, any active and contributing member of the Employees'
Retirement System of Alabama may purchase up to two years of service credit for the time he
or she was receiving benefits pursuant to the Alabama Workers' Compensation Act, commencing
with Section 25-5-1, and was absent from work due to a work related and compensable injury;
provided that the member returned to work with his or her covered employer within one year
following cessation of workers' compensation benefits. The Board of Control of the Employees'
Retirement System shall adopt rules and regulations for the administration of this section
including verification of the service that the member desires to purchase credit for in the
system. The member shall receive credit for the service when he or she remits to the system
the contributions required by subsection (b). Notwithstanding the foregoing...
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36-27-186
Section 36-27-186 Pensioners who retired prior to membership of employer and receiving benefits
not administered by system. Commencing October 1, 2002, any pensioner or annuitant who retired
prior to October 1, 2001, from a city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization
of the state before the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the
state became a member of the Employees' Retirement System and is receiving a monthly benefit
not administered by the Employees' Retirement System shall receive an increase of three percent
of their gross monthly benefit, but not less than fifteen dollars ($15) per month, provided
the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state elects to fund
the increase. (Act 2002-393, p. 986, §7.)...
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36-27-195
Section 36-27-195 Pensioners who retired prior to membership of employer and receiving benefits
not administered by system. Commencing October 1, 2005, any pensioner or annuitant who retired
prior to October 1, 2004, from a city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization
of the state before the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the
state became a member of the Employees' Retirement System and is receiving a monthly benefit
not administered by the Employees' Retirement System shall receive an increase of four percent
of their gross monthly benefit, but not less than fifteen dollars ($15) per month, provided
the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state elects to fund
and pay the increase. (Act 2005-316, 1st Sp. Sess., p. 766, §10.)...
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36-27-4
Section 36-27-4 Membership - Generally; denial of membership; absence from service; military
service. (a) The membership of the retirement system shall be composed as follows: (1) All
persons who shall become employees after October 1, 1945, shall become members of the retirement
system as a condition of their employment. (2) Any person who is an employee on October 1,
1945, shall become a member as of that date unless, within a period of 90 days next following,
such employee shall file with the Board of Control on a form prescribed by the board a notice
of his or her election not to be covered in the membership of the system and a duly executed
waiver of all present and prospective benefits which would otherwise inure to him or her on
account of his or her membership in the retirement system. (3) An employee whose membership
in the retirement system is contingent on his or her own election and who elects not to become
a member may thereafter apply for and be admitted to membership...
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16-22-17
Section 16-22-17 Payroll deductions for participation in statewide programs. (a) When used
in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively: (1)
EMPLOYEE. Any person employed full-time as provided by law by those employers enumerated in
this section and adult bus drivers. (2) EMPLOYER. All public city and county boards of education;
the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind; the Alabama Youth Services
Department District Board in its capacity as the Board of Education for the Youth Services
Department District; the Board of Directors of the Alabama School of Fine Arts; the Board
of Trustees of the Alabama High School of Mathematics and Science; the State Board of Education
as applied to the payroll office of two-year postsecondary education institutions; and the
Board of Trustees of Alabama A and M University. (3) PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION or ORGANIZATION.
The employees' local professional organization representing the...
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16-25-190
Section 16-25-190 Increase in benefits to members and beneficiaries. (a) Commencing October
1, 2005, there is provided an increase in benefits to each person currently receiving benefits
whose effective date of retirement was prior to October 1, 2004, for purposes of receiving
benefits, and to certain beneficiaries of deceased members and deceased retirees currently
receiving survivor benefits, if the effective date of retirement or death for the deceased
retiree or deceased member was prior to October 1, 2004, for purposes of receiving benefits
from the Teachers' Retirement System, a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) of four percent of
the current gross benefit, but not less than fifteen dollars ($15) per month. (b) Any future
survivor allowance shall be adjusted as provided in the members' original option selection
for those eligible retirees who have selected a monthly survivor allowance payable to a designated
beneficiary upon the death of the retiree, or otherwise provided by law...
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16-25-40
Section 16-25-40 Persons whose date of retirement is prior to October 1, 1987 or beneficiaries
of deceased members or retirees entitled to cost of living increases. There is hereby provided,
commencing October 1, 1988, to each person whose effective date of retirement for purposes
of receiving benefits from the Teachers' Retirement System is prior to October 1, 1987, and
to beneficiaries of deceased members or deceased retirees provided the date of death for such
deceased member or the effective date of retirement for such deceased retiree for purposes
of receiving benefits from the Teachers' Retirement System was prior to October 1, 1987, and
who is receiving a monthly allowance from the Teachers' Retirement System a cost-of-living
increase as follows: (1) One dollar per month for each year of service attained by said retiree
for each retiree selecting the maximum retirement allowance or Option 1. (2) One dollar per
month for each year of service attained by said retiree reduced by...
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36-27-205
Section 36-27-205 Pensioners who retired prior to membership of employer and receiving benefits
not administered by system. Commencing October 1, 2006, any pensioner or annuitant who retired
prior to October 1, 2005, from a city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization
of the state before the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the
state became a member of the Employees' Retirement System and is receiving a monthly benefit
not administered by the Employees' Retirement System shall receive the cost-of-living increase
of two percent in his or her gross monthly benefit which the Legislature committed to in Section
14 of Act 2005-316, plus an additional five percent increase in his or her gross monthly benefit.
The increase shall not be less than twenty-five dollars ($25) per month. The increase shall
be granted provided the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the
state elects to fund and pay the increase. (Act 2006-510, p....
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