H477 - Retirement Death Benefits Rewrite. (SL 2025-11)

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Session Year 2025

Overview: S.L. 2025-11 (House Bill 477) recodifies and standardizes the laws related to the Death Benefit Plan within the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System (TSERS), the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System (LGERS), the Consolidated Judicial Retirement System (CJRS), and the Legislative Retirement System (LRS), and creates a separate fund for line of duty death benefits.

The recodification and standardization provisions became effective June 13, 2025.  The separate fund for line of duty death benefits became effective July 1, 2025.