1. Any new state employee who would have become a member of the closed plan administered by the transportation department and highway patrol retirement system except for the creation of the year 2000 plan and persons covered by the closed plan administered by the highway and transportation employees’ and highway patrol retirement system who elect year 2000 plan coverage as provided in section 104.1015 shall have their year 2000 plan coverage managed by that board.

2. Any new state employee who would have become a member of the closed plan administered by the Missouri state employees’ retirement system except for the creation of the year 2000 plan or persons covered by the closed plan administered by the Missouri state employees’ retirement system who elect year 2000 plan coverage as provided in section 104.1015 shall have their year 2000 plan coverage managed by that board.

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 104.1012

  • Board of trustees: "board", or "trustees", a board of trustees as established for the applicable system pursuant to this chapter. See Missouri Laws 104.010
  • Department: any department or agency of the executive, legislative or judicial branch of the state of Missouri receiving state appropriations, including allocated funds from the federal government but not including any body corporate or politic unless its employees are eligible for retirement coverage from a system pursuant to this chapter as otherwise provided by law. See Missouri Laws 104.010
  • employee: shall include :

    a. See Missouri Laws 104.010

  • Member: as used in sections 104. See Missouri Laws 104.010
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • retirement system: the Missouri department of transportation and highway patrol employees' retirement system, as created by sections 104. See Missouri Laws 104.010
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

3. In the event either board of trustees elects to provide employees, members, or vested former members under either the closed plan or the year 2000 plan with education or advice pertaining to any aspect of retirement planning, the board will not be liable for the retirement or investment decisions made or not made by employees, members, or vested former members so long as the board acts with the same care, skills, prudence, and diligence in the selection and monitoring of providers of education and advice under the circumstances then prevailing that a prudent person acting in a similar capacity and familiar with those matters would use in the conduct of a similar enterprise with similar aims.