(1) Notwithstanding KRS § 21.345 to KRS § 21.580, 61.661, 61.870 to 61.884, or 161.585 to the contrary, on or before November 15 following the close of each fiscal year, the state-administered retirement systems shall collectively file a report with the Public Pension Oversight Board that shall include the following information for each member or recipient of a retirement allowance from any of the state-administered retirement systems:
(a) A unique identification number for each member or recipient that is created solely for purposes of compiling the report provided by this section and which shall not be the member’s Social Security number or personal identification number issued by the systems. For individual members or recipients with multiple accounts in the state-administered retirement systems, all of the state- administered retirement systems shall use the same unique identification number;

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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 7A.255

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(b) The system or systems in which the member has an account or from which the retired member is receiving a monthly retirement allowance;
(c) The status of the member or recipient, including but not limited to whether he or she is a contributing member, a member who is not currently contributing to the systems but has not retired, a retired member, a beneficiary, or a retired member who has returned to work following retirement with an agency participating in the systems;
(d) If the individual is a retired member or beneficiary, the annualized monthly retirement allowance that he or she was receiving at the end of the most recently completed fiscal year; and
(e) If the individual is a member who has not yet retired, the estimated annual retirement allowance that he or she is eligible to receive at his or her normal retirement date based upon his or her service credit, final compensation, and accumulated account balance at the end of the most recently completed fiscal year.
Under no circumstances shall the member’s name, address, or Social Security number be included in the information required to be reported to the board by this section, nor shall the unique identification number established by subsection (1) of this section be capable of being linked to a specific member’s retirement account with a state-administered retirement system.
(2) On or before November 15 following the close of each fiscal year, the state- administered retirement systems shall report to the Public Pension Oversight Board the percentage of system assets and managers for which fees and commissions are being reported in accordance with KRS § 21.540(4)(m), 61.645(19)(i), and
161.250(4)(i). This subsection shall apply on a fiscal year basis beginning on or after July 1, 2017.
(3) On or before November 15, 2017, the state-administered retirement systems shall tender to the Public Pension Oversight Board a copy of their board-adopted investment procurement policy along with certification from the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet that the investment procurement policy meets or does not meet the best practices for investment management procurement. If the board amends its investment procurement policy, it shall tender a copy of its amended investment procurement policy to the Public Pension Oversight Board within sixty (60) days of adoption along with certification from the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet that the policy meets or does not meet the best practices for investment management procurement.
(4) On or before November 15 following the close of each fiscal year, the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority shall report to the Public Pension Oversight Board the number of individuals and total payments to members who become totally and permanently disabled as a direct result of an act in line of duty as defined in KRS
16.505 or become disabled as a result of a duty-related injury as defined in KRS
61.621. The data shall be broken down by system and for recipients who are drawing a benefit from the disablement of a hazardous member, a nonhazardous member who worked in a nonhazardous position that could be certified as a hazardous position based upon KRS § 61.592, and a nonhazardous member who worked in a nonhazardous position that could not be certified as a hazardous position based upon KRS § 61.592.
(5) On or before November 15, 2023, and on or before November 15 every fourth year thereafter, the Department of Kentucky State Police and the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority shall jointly report to the Public Pension Oversight Board on the costs and effectiveness of the program established by KRS § 16.583(2)(b)2. and
16.584.
Effective: April 1, 2023
History: Amended 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 181, sec. 4, effective April 1, 2023. — Amended
2021 Ky. Acts ch. 106, sec. 9, effective June 29, 2021. — Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 12, sec. 10, effective March 10, 2017. — Created 2016 Ky. Acts ch. 27, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2016.
Legislative Research Commission Note (6/29/2021). See 2021 Ky. Acts ch. 106, secs.
10, 11, 12, and 13 for information regarding the application of the amendments to this statute made in that Act.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/2016). 2016 Ky. Acts ch. 27, sec. 2 states that “The Public Pension Oversight Board may utilize the information provided by Section 1 of this Act (KRS § 7A.255) to carry out the duties of the board as provided by KRS § 7A.250 or to respond to data requests from members of the Public Pension Oversight Board or members of the General Assembly.”