Governor Walz signed into law the Pension Omnibus Bill yesterday, May 15. It was a busy year for MNCORA and PERA Correctional Plan Legislation. MNCORA with your help was able to stave off yet another attempt to add dispatchers to our pension. Your petitions, calls and thousands of cards mailed to legislators was a success.  Sadly we are not out of the woods. Rep. Wolgamott and Rep. Her both told MNCORA that the bill to add dispatch to our pension wouldn't be added to this year's Pension Omnibus Bill, but did not say the issue was dead for next session.  MNCORA had a Bill to add a Correctional Officer to the PERA Board authored by Representatives Niska , Scott and Novotny  on the House side, and a companion Bill in the Senate by Senators Bahr , Abeler and eventually Frentz . Sadly Pension Commission Chair Kaohly Her did not even allow our Bill a hearing. We will be back with this next year!  Another bright note was the passage of a Bill raising the high 5 multipl...

  HF 4342  is a reality. This Bill will add a new seat to the PERA Executive Board dedicated to a Correctional Officer. This has been a long time in the works and MNCORA thanks Representative Niska and Scott for Authoring it in the House and LCPR Executive Director Susan Lenczewski for her assistance writing the Bill. We are currently reaching out to Senators for a Senate Companion Author and will keep you posted. Link to the Bill-  https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF4342&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2024&session_number=0 This Bill will benefit all current, past vested and retiree members of the PERA Correctional Plan.