Public Employees' Retirement Association Risk-Reduction Measures

Pension Review Commission. Currently, the public employees' retirement association (PERA) board (board) conducts or causes to be conducted an actuarial experience study of PERA and a periodic actuarial audit of PERA. Both the actuarial experience study and the periodic actuarial audit, neither of which are referenced in current law, are conducted approximately once every 5 years, but the timing of the actuarial experience study and the periodic actuarial audit is not aligned.

The bill requires the board to conduct or cause to be conducted the actuarial experience study in the 2025 calendar year and every 4 years thereafter, rather than every 5 years. In addition, the bill requires the board to conduct or cause to be conducted the periodic actuarial audit of PERA in the 2026 calendar year and every 4 years thereafter, rather than every 5 years, and ensure that each periodic actuarial audit takes into consideration the results and findings of the actuarial experience study that was conducted during the prior calendar year.

In addition, beginning in the 2027 calendar year, and every 4 years thereafter, the state auditor is required to commission an independent review of the periodic actuarial audit that the board conducted or caused to be conducted in the prior calendar year by experts other than those already working on behalf of PERA. The experts commissioned to conduct the independent review are required to analyze how the periodic actuarial audit was conducted and provide an independent interpretation of the results of the periodic actuarial audit, including whether the periodic actuarial audit appropriately considered the results of the most recent actuarial experience study that the board conducted or caused to be conducted.

(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)