97B.65  Revision rights reserved -- increase of benefits -- rates of contribution.

The right is reserved to the general assembly to alter, amend, or repeal any provision of this chapter or any application thereof to any person, provided, however, that to the extent of the funds in the retirement system the amount of benefits which at the time of any such alteration, amendment, or repeal shall have accrued to any member of the retirement system shall not be repudiated, provided further, however, that the amount of benefits accrued on account of prior service shall be adjusted to the extent of any unfunded accrued liability then outstanding. Any increase enacted in benefits or retirement allowance under this chapter shall be accompanied by a change in the employer and employee contribution rates necessary to support such increase, all determined in accordance with sound actuarial principles and methods.

Section History: Early form

  [C46, 50, § 97.11, 97.13; C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 97B.65]

Section History: Recent form

  2003 Acts, ch 145, §286


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