Citations Affected:
IC 33-4-8-5
;
IC 33-13-8-27.
Synopsis: Judges. Conference committee report for EHB 1092. Provides that a senior judge
receives a per diem of $50 for each of the first 30 days of service in a calendar year and, for each
day after the first 30 days, a $100 per diem. Provides that the supreme court may adjust the
compensation rate if there are insufficient funds in the payroll fund. Allows a judge to purchase
service credit for service as a full-time judge pro tempore. (This conference committee report
provides that a senior judge receives a per diem of $50 for each of the first 30 days of
service in a calendar year and, for each day after the first 30 days, a $100 per diem.
Provides that the supreme court may adjust the compensation rate if there are insufficient
funds in the payroll fund.) (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the pension
management oversight commission.)
Effective: July 1, 2003.
MR. SPEAKER:
Your Conference Committee appointed to confer with a like committee from the Senate
upon Engrossed Senate Amendments to Engrossed House Bill No. 1092 respectfully reports
that said two committees have conferred and agreed as follows to wit:
that the House recede from its dissent from all Senate amendments and that
the House now concur in all Senate amendments to the bill and that the bill
be further amended as follows:
Delete everything after the enacting clause and insert:
payroll. If the payroll fund is insufficient to pay the compensation
under subsection (a)(2), the supreme court may issue an order
adjusting the compensation rate.
(d) A senior judge appointed under this chapter may not be
compensated as a senior judge for more than one hundred (100)
calendar days in the aggregate during a calendar year.
this section:
(1) The board may allow a participant to make periodic
payments of the contributions required for the purchase of the
service credit. The board shall determine the length of the
period during which the payments are to be made.
(2) The board may deny an application for the purchase of
service credit if the purchase would exceed the limitations set
forth in Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code.
(3) A participant may not claim the service credit for purposes
of determining eligibility or computing benefits unless the
participant has made all payments required for the purchase
of the service credit.
(f) To the extent permitted by the Internal Revenue Code and
applicable regulations, the fund may accept, on behalf of a
participant who is purchasing service credit under this section, a
rollover of a distribution from any of the following:
(1) A qualified plan described in Section 401(a) or Section
403(a) of the Internal Revenue Code.
(2) An annuity contract or account described in Section 403(b)
of the Internal Revenue Code.
(3) An eligible plan that is maintained by a state, a political
subdivision of a state, or an agency or instrumentality of a state
or political subdivision of a state under Section 457(b) of the
Internal Revenue Code.
(4) An individual retirement account or annuity described in
Section 408(a) or Section 408(b) of the Internal Revenue Code.
(g) To the extent permitted by the Internal Revenue Code and the
applicable regulations, the fund may accept, on behalf of a
participant who is purchasing service credit under this section, a
trustee to trustee transfer from any of the following:
(1) An annuity contract or account described in Section 403(b)
of the Internal Revenue Code.
(2) An eligible deferred compensation plan under Section
457(b) of the Internal Revenue Code.
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Representative Kersey Senator Bray
Chairperson
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Representative LaPlante Senator Skinner
House Conferees Senate Conferees