The Senate joined the House in passing House Bill 63, a bipartisan bill, unanimously. Right now, state pensioners (people who have worked for the state and then retired and started collecting their pension) are allowed to earn additional income up to $40,000 without losing any amount of their pension income. Over $40,000, the pensioner will have his or her pension reduced $1 for every $2 of new income (a 50% reduction).
This bill will increase that $40,000 threshold to $50,000.
The bill now goes to the Governor.
| House Bill 63 – INCREASING PENSIONER’S INCOME REDUCTION LIMIT | Currrent Status – House Passed 40-0-1. Senate Passed 20-0-1. Sent to the Governor. |
| House Sponsors – Dukes Briggs-King Gray Hensley Short Yearick // Osienski Williams | Senate Sponsors – Brown Sokola // Hocker Richardson Wilson |
| House Yes Votes – Baumbach Bush Carson Chukwuocha Cooke Dorsey-Walker Griffith Harris Heffernan Johnson Lambert Longhurst Lynn Matthews Minor-Brown Moore Morrison Neal Osienski Parker-Selby Phillips Romer Schwartzkopf Williams Wilson-Anton // Briggs King Collins Dukes Gray Hensley Hilovsky Morris Postles Ramone Short Shupe Smith Spiegelman Vanderwende Yearick | Senate Yes Votes – Brown Gay Hansen Hoffner Huxtable Lockman Mantzavinos McBride Pinkney Poore Sokola Sturgeon Townsend Walsh // Buckson Hocker Lawson Pettyjohn Richardon Wilson |
| House No Votes – None | Senate No Votes – None |
| House Absents or Not Voting – Bolden | Senate Absent or Not Voting – Paradee |
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