(a) Any member of either the state employees retirement system or the teachers' retirement system, if eligible to belong to the other or in accordance with the provisions of subsection (h) of section 5-160 or section 5-192e, may transfer from the one to which such member belongs to the other or prior to the first of the month following three months after June 28, 1985, to an alternate retirement program, as defined in subsection (u) of section 5-154, when authorized to do so, in the case of a transfer between said systems or a transfer from the teachers' retirement system to an alternate retirement program, by the concurrent action of the State Employees Retirement Commission and the Teachers' Retirement Board. No person shall be eligible to membership in more than one such system or program at the same time, provided nothing contained herein shall affect the rights of any person who, on June 18, 1953, was a member of both systems. Any member of the teachers' retirement system who elects or has elected to participate in an alternate retirement program shall receive a refund of all contributions made by him into said system in lieu of any benefits under said system. Any former state employee who was, during such employee's period of employment, eligible to belong to either the state employees retirement system or the teachers' retirement system and who withdrew from the state employees retirement system after July 1, 1940, to become a member of the teachers' retirement system may be credited in the teachers' retirement system with such member's period of state service upon making application in writing to the secretary of the Teachers' Retirement Board and paying contributions for such period of service with credited interest from the date such service was rendered.

(b) No person who has creditable service as a member of the state employees retirement system and who transfers, on or after May 6, 1975, to the teachers' retirement system shall be entitled to benefits from the teachers' retirement system until such person has been a member of and contributed to said system for a period of one year. If such transferee dies or becomes disabled before completion of that one year, such transfer shall be deemed to be cancelled and such person shall be deemed to be a member of the state employees retirement system.

(P.A. 78-208, S. 15, 35; P.A. 83-533, S. 44, 54; P.A. 84-544, S. 6, 8; P.A. 85-510, S. 30, 35.)

History: P.A. 83-533 amended Subsec. (b) by adding provision re death or disability of transferee; P.A. 84-544 amended Subsec. (a) to authorize a transfer from state employees' or teachers' retirement system to an alternate retirement prior to October 1, 1984, and to add provision re refund of contributions in lieu of benefits to member of teachers' retirement system who participates in an alternate retirement program; P.A. 85-510 amended Subsec. (a) to authorize transfers between the state employees and the teachers' retirement systems “in accordance with the provisions of subsection (h) of section 5-160 or section 5-192e”, and to extend deadline for transfers from either system to an alternate retirement program from October 1, 1984, to the first of the month following three months after June 28, 1985.

See Sec. 5-192d re administration of retirement funds for teachers at E.O. Smith School.

Any intention of General Assembly to avoid payment of double pensions has not been implemented by affirmative legislation. 136 C. 177.

Teachers are not entitled to retirement benefits from both state teachers' and state employees' retirement systems. 16 CS 196.