Section 172.815

Title XI EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES

Chapter 172

Effective - 01 Nov 1990, see footnote   

  172.815.  Employees of center to be university employees, when — benefits, election by employee. — 1.  Upon agreement of the curators of the University of Missouri and the state cancer commission, all employees of the center shall become employees of the curators of the University of Missouri on November 1, 1990.  All employees so transferred shall be subject to the personnel policies of the University of Missouri and shall be given credit for any unused sick leave and vacation time, but beginning on November 1, 1990, shall earn sick leave and vacation time in accordance with university rules.  The curators of the University of Missouri shall, at the option of the employee, if benefit eligible under university policies, enroll a transferred employee in the university's benefit program, including retirement, health, life insurance, long-term disability, and accidental death and dismemberment on that date, or shall provide for a transferred employee to continue participation in the state employees' benefit programs provided that any employee who desires to continue participation in the state employees' benefit programs shall elect in writing to continue such participation within ninety days of the date the employee is notified by the curators of the agreement to transfer the state cancer center.  Any transferred employee who fails to make such election shall be deemed to have elected to be enrolled in the university's benefit program.  For a state cancer center employee to transfer to the university's benefits programs without showing evidence of good health, the employee must be currently enrolled in like benefits programs of the state of Missouri, unless none exists.  Those employees transferring to the university's benefits programs shall receive credit for service accrued under the retirement program of the state cancer center.

  2.  The curators of the University of Missouri will be reimbursed for all liabilities attendant to the transfer of employees to its benefits programs.  In particular, but not exclusively limited thereto, the board of trustees of the state employees' retirement system shall reimburse the curators of the University of Missouri for the actuarial value of the service being transferred from the Missouri state employees' retirement system, the amount of which is calculated by the ratio of the actuarial accrued liability of each member who transfers from the Missouri state employees' retirement system to the University of Missouri retirement system to the total actuarial accrued liability for the Missouri state employees' retirement system as a whole, and applying that ratio to total Missouri state employees' retirement system pension trust assets.

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(L. 1990 H.B. 1725 merged with S.B. 737)

Effective 11-1-90