AB 337

Under current law, required employer and employee contributions under the

Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS), and the earnings on these contributions, fund

the cost of providing retirement annuities to public employees who are covered under

the WRS. Current law permits the employer, on behalf of its employees, to pay all

or part of the employee required contributions.

This bill provides that, beginning on January 1, 2010, a participating employer

in the WRS who is covered by the Municipal Employment Relations Act (MERA) may

not pay, on behalf of any employee, the first 3 percent of earnings that the

participating employee is required to pay as employee required contributions under

the WRS. Employers covered by MERA generally include any city, county, village,

town, metropolitan sewerage district, school district, family care district, or any

other political subdivision of the state, or instrumentality of one or more political

subdivisions of the state.

Because this bill relates to public employee retirement or pensions, it may be

referred to the Joint Survey Committee on Retirement Systems for a report to be

printed as an appendix to the bill.