Updated: May 11, 1999

Section 1: Amends AS 14.25.040, TERS Membership, to provide that if a teacher is injured on the job as a result of a physical assault, the teacher is entitled to accrue credited service. This entitlement would end when the teacher is eligible for retirement or is placed on disability because of the injury.

Section 2: Amends AS 14.25.050(a), Contribution by teachers, to provide for an exception to the teacher contributing to TERS when that teacher has been physically assaulted, in which case the employer contributes.

Section 3: Amends AS 14.25.050, Contribution by teachers, by adding subsections (c) & (d).

Subsection (c) provides that the employer shall pay for the teacher's contributions when the teacher is off the job because of an on-the-job physical assault injury.

Subsection (d) provides a teacher who is placed in a leave of absence status because of an on-the-job injury or occupational illness other than an physical assault injury, with the same option as employees in PERS to buy credited service for the period of time the teacher is off the job for the on-the-job injury, receives normal retirement, or receives a disability pension.

Section 4: Amends AS 39.35.120, Commencement of participation in PERS, puts a limit on an employee receiving credited service bring paid by the employer from an assault injury under PERS.

Section 5: Amends AS 39.35.160(a), Amount of employee contributions. This provides that the employer not the employee who is on a leave of absence due to an on-the-job injury from a physical assault will make contribution at the prevailing rate.

Section 6: Amends AS 39.35.160, Amount of employee contributions, to provide that that the employer shall pay for a public school employee's contributions to PERS when the employee is off the job because of an on-the-job assault injury.

Section 7: Provides that credited service will be applicable only to injuries received on the day of or after the effective date of HB 226.