97B.73B  Patient advocates -- unpaid contributions -- service purchase.

1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 97B.9 to the contrary, unpaid contributions for a person classified as a patient advocate under section 229.19, for service as a patient advocate prior to July 1, 2000, shall be determined and collected as provided under section 97B.9, subsection 5, but shall be limited to the collection of underpaid contributions for a maximum of one year of service.

2.  A patient advocate who becomes covered under this chapter and for whom underpaid contributions for one year of service have been paid shall be eligible to purchase membership service for service as a patient advocate prior to July 1, 2000, in excess of the one year of service provided in this section by paying the system an amount determined as follows:

a.  For a purchase of membership service prior to July 1, 2002, the total of the employee and employer contributions, without interest, on the covered wages that would have been reported to the system under the provisions of this chapter in effect for the applicable period of service.

b.  For a purchase of membership service on or after July 1, 2002, the actuarial cost of the service purchase in a manner as provided in section 97B.73.

Section History: Recent form

  2000 Acts, ch 1077, §69; 2001 Acts, ch 68, §21, 24; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §286


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