There is hereby established the Expanding Access for Retirement and Necessary Saving (“EARNS”) Program to serve as a vehicle through which covered employees may, on a voluntary basis, provide for additional retirement security through a state-facilitated retirement saving program in a convenient, cost effective, and portable manner. The Program is designed as a public-private partnership that will encourage, not replace or compete with, employer-sponsored retirement plans.

83 Del. Laws, c. 405, § 1;