2009 Legislative Update

The Omnibus Retirement Bill that was passed into law on May 22 contains a number of provisions that affect fire relief associations. Most of the changes were based upon the Working Group’s suggestions. The Working Group completed a major initiative of reorganizing Chapter 424A, the chapter of state law that pertains to relief association service pensions and benefits. The reorganization included many technical changes that updated wording to current drafting standards. The reorganization and technical changes most likely will not result in required changes to your relief association’s bylaws, unless your bylaws reference specific statutory citations or language. If your relief association bylaws do reference specific statutory citations or language you should compare the bylaw language with the new statutory language.

More information can be found in the 2009 Legislative Update. For a complete list of changes included in the Omnibus Pension Bill, please review our May, 2009 Pension Newsletter.