AB 482

Currently, under the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS), general and

teacher employees must pay as employee required contributions a percentage of

their earnings equal to one-half of the total actuarially required contribution rate

to fund all of their WRS benefits. Protective occupation participant employees,

which include law enforcement and fire fighting personnel, must pay the same

percentage of earnings as general and teacher employees. Current law prohibits the

employer from paying, on behalf of the employee, any of the employee required

contribution amounts, except that the employer must collectively bargain over this

matter for those law enforcement and fire fighting employees who were initially

employed by the employer before July 1, 2011.

This bill provides that if a municipal employer employs police officers, and all

of the police officers are not in collective bargaining units, the municipal employer

must pay the employee required contribution amounts for those police officers who

were initially employed by the municipal employer before July 1, 2011.

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.