A1073

Establishes Emergency Services part of PERS; provides enhanced benefits for emergency services employees.

This bill creates an Emergency Services Part in the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) to provide certain enhanced pension and death benefits equivalent to those provided to law enforcement officers under the Law Enforcement Officers (LEO) Part of PERS, including mandatory retirement due to age, to members who hold or held certain emergency services titles. The Emergency Services Part will include emergency medical technicians, paramedics, public safety telecommunicators, and other emergency services employees.