Another Legislative Session is passing and our Bill to add a PERA Correctional Plan seat to the PERA Board has once again not made it out of the Pension Committee! HF708 and SF1556 was authored by Rep. Peggy Scott, Rep. Harry Niska, Sen. Cal Bahr (who introduced the Bill) and Sen. Jim Abeler.  The Bill was opposed last session by PERA because they objected to an even numbered board.  So this year we had Rep. Peggy Scott amend the Bill so that one of the existing elected seats would be a dedicated PERA Correctional Plan member. Pension Commission Chair Nick Frentz shot it down.  Rep. Scott's Office emailed MNCORA after contacting Sen. Frentz stating:  " He has indicated that granting an exception in this case could lead to similar requests from other entities seeking the same considerations." MNCORA thanks Rep. Peggy Scott, Rep. Harry Niska, Sen. Cal Bahr and Sen. Jim Abeler for authoring the Bill. This is an election year. Remember those who supported us and ...

Last session the following legislators authored HF4342  on the House side, a Bill to add a PERA Correctional Officer to the PERA Board.  Representative Harry Niska was the one who got the ball rolling quickly followed by Rep. Peggy Scott and Rep. Paul Novotny . On the Senate side SF4464 Senator Cal Bahr was the first to Author followed by Senator Jim Abeler  and finally Senator Nick Frentz . The Chair of the Legislative Pension Commission , Rep. Kaohly Her did not allow this Bill to be heard even though it had a sponsor on both the House and Senate side. MNCORA is hoping to get this Bill reintroduced this upcoming session. Each year the Chair of the  Pension Commission rotates. We are hoping the next Chair is more amenable to a Correctional Officer on the PERA Board. This is an election year and MNCORA wants our members to know who has supported our efforts. Supporting this Bill were Representatives Harry Niska, Peggy Scott and Paul Novotny. In the Senate were Se...