House File 2134HOUSE FILE BY STRUYK Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act concerning eligibility to participate in a sick leave 2 conversion program by certain peace officers employed within 3 the department of public safety. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 6000YH 82 6 ec/nh/8 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 70A.23, subsection 4, Code 2007, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 4. Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the 1 4 contrary, peace officers employed within the department of 1 5 public safety and the department of natural resources that are 1 6 not covered under a collective bargaining agreement shall have 1 7 a sick leave conversion program extended to them that is 1 8 equivalent to the sick leave conversion program negotiated 1 9 under chapter 20 between the state and the state police 1 10 officers council labor union for peace officers. At a 1 11 minimum, the sick leave conversion program negotiated under 1 12 chapter 20 shall provide that a peace officer employed within 1 13 the department of public safety who retires prior to attaining 1 14 the age of fifty=five shall be entitled to participate in the 1 15 program as if the peace officer retired at age fifty=five. In 1 16 addition, an employee of the department of public safety or 1 17 the department of natural resources who has earned benefits of 1 18 payment of premiums under a collective bargaining agreement 1 19 and who becomes a manager or supervisor and is no longer 1 20 covered by the agreement shall not lose the benefits of 1 21 payment of premiums earned while covered by the agreement. 1 22 The payment shall be calculated by multiplying the number of 1 23 hours of accumulated, unused sick leave by the employee's 1 24 hourly rate of pay at the time of retirement. 1 25 EXPLANATION 1 26 This bill provides that the sick leave conversion program 1 27 negotiated under Code chapter 20 between the state and the 1 28 state police officers council labor union for peace officers 1 29 shall provide that a peace officer employed with the 1 30 department of public safety who retires before age 55 shall be 1 31 entitled to participate in the program as if the peace officer 1 32 retired at age 55. 1 33 LSB 6000YH 82 1 34 ec/nh/8