Current Legislation

This Legislative update page is designed to keep you informed on possible or actual legislation that may or will have an impact on our pension system's operation, our pension benefits, or our healthcare benefits. If the Ohio House (HB) or Senate (SB) Bill is highlighted, put your "cursor arrow" on it and "click". By doing this you will go into the Ohio Legislative Website, where you can get more detail on the Bills. When you are done "click" on the "Back" button and you will be able to return to this page.

PERI is constantly working to make retirees' desires known to the Ohio General Assembly.

PERI Administrater Bill Winegarner leads press conference.

Press Conference Article.

LOCATING YOUR STATE SENATOR AND / OR REPRESENTATIVE

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You can also locate them by "clicking" on the following: Ohio General Assembly

The Governor's phone number is 1-614-466-3555

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Last update June 30, 2010.

Recent Columbus Dispatch article on the mis-information about political influence pertaining to OPERS information.

Political campaigning has caused a recent flood of articles about public pensions. Most of the articles focus on extreem situations and totally ignore the fact that the money in the pension systems is no longer "Tax Payer" money, but rather the personal property of the contributors. If the politicians and press have a problem with government funding, they need to be concentrating their attention on current worker contracts and obligations, not on our funds.

Click on the following link to see the PERI response to a June 20, 2010 article in the Columbus Dispatch entitled “Pension lobby has power at Statehouse”. Letter to Columbus Dispatch

House Bills

Senate Bills

S.B. No. 20 Sponsored by (Senator Cary)

S.B. No. 83 Sponsored by (Senator Faber)

S.B. No. 219 Sponsored by (Senator Grendell)

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The Government Pension Offset rules (Spouses and widow(er) ) are explained in Social Security’s publication No 05-10007.

The Windfall rules (worker) "A Pension From Work Not Covered By Social Security" are explained in Social Security’s publication No 05-10045.

PERI has been waging a campaign for the elimination of the offset provision since 1983. Every year since, proposed legislation to eliminate the provision has ended up in a House Ways & Means Committee sub-committee. That is a nice way of saying that they were ignored because there was not enough political pressure to push the legislation through congress. For our statement before the committee click on the following link:

Statement for the Record: US House of Representatives.

Statement for the Record: US Senate.

There are currently several bills under consideration. You can "Click" on the links below to learn the specifics of each Bill.

H.R. 235 sponsored by Representative Berman (CA).

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