AN ACT relating to retirement and declaring an emergency. Amend KRS 21.530 to require Senate confirmation of the gubernatorial appointments to the Judicial Form Retirement System; amend KRS 21.540 to require the Judicial Form Retirement System, which administers the Legislators' Retirement Plan and the Judicial Retirement Plan, to post descriptive and financial information to the system's Web site, and to delineate that investment fee and commission reporting include profit sharing, carried interest, and partnership incentives; amend KRS 61.645 to narrow the definition of investment experience on the board of trustees, to specify that vacancies to elected positions be filled by majority vote of the remaining elected members, to require Senate confirmation of gubernatorial appointments to the board, and to delineate that investment fee and commission reporting requirements for the Kentucky Retirement Systems shall include profit sharing, carried interest, and partnership incentives; provide that the systems may not have to disclose contracts on a Web site if disclosure would result in a competitive disadvantage, but require those contracts to be released to the trustees, the State Auditor, and the LRC Govt. Contract Review Committee, subject to the redaction of otherwise exempted material; subject the Kentucky Retirement Systems to KRS Chapter 18A regarding personnel; cap the reimbursement rate for legal services at the Government Contract Review Committee maximum hourly rate; make technical amendments; amend KRS 161.250 to add two gubernatorial appointments to the board subject to Senate confirmation, to specify that investment fee and commission reporting requirements for the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System must include profit sharing, carried interest, and partnership incentives; provide that the Teachers' Retirement System may not have to disclose contracts on a Web site if disclosure would result in a competitive disadvantage, but require those contracts to be released to the trustees, the State Auditor, and the LRC Govt. Contract Review Committee, subject to the redaction of otherwise exempted material; cap the reimbursement rate for legal services to the Teachers' Retirement System at the Government Contract Review Committee maximum hourly rate; amend various KRS sections to place all state retirement systems under the Model Procurement Code regarding contracts and improve definition of placement agents to include nonemployees and subsidiary firms; amend KRS 7A.220 to increase the membership of the Public Pension Oversight Board; amend KRS 7A.255 to require annual reporting of the percentage of system assets being reported by external managers and partnerships; amend KRS 6.350 to declare noncompliant any actuarial analyses returning negligible or indeterminable cost results; EMERGENCY.
Bill status
signed
all 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2017
Committee Review
Feb 2017
Senate Passage
Feb 2017
Signed into Law
Mar 2017
Introduced Jan 3, 2017
Signed Mar 10, 2017
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
33
Key actions
8
Committee
7
Amendments
5
Mar 10, 2017
Signed into law
Signed by Governor
legislature
Feb 27, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Bill passed 35-0
legislature
Feb 27, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Senate concurred in House floor amendment (1)
legislature
Feb 24, 2017
Introduced
Posted for passage for concurrence in House floor amendment (1) for Monday, February 27, 2017
legislature
Feb 24, 2017
Committee
To Rules (S)
legislature
Feb 23, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Passed 99-0 with floor amendment (1)
legislature
Feb 23, 2017
Introduced
Floor amendment (2) ruled out of order
legislature
Feb 22, 2017
Introduced
Floor amendment (3) filed
legislature
Feb 17, 2017
Introduced
Floor amendment (2) filed
legislature
Feb 16, 2017
Introduced
Floor amendment (1) filed
legislature
Feb 14, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Posted in committee
legislature
Feb 13, 2017
Committee
To State Government (H)
legislature
Feb 8, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)
legislature
Jan 3, 2017
Committee
To State & Local Government (S)
legislature
Jan 3, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Returned to Committee on Committees (S)
legislature
Jan 3, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Taken from Committee on Committees (S)
legislature
Jan 3, 2017
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
legislature
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
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