Minnesota Agencies

The executive director of the Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement (LCPR) must convene a work group for the purpose of recommending a pension plan to be administered by the Minnesota State Retirement System (MSRS) for probation officers and 911 telecommunicators who are state employees, as defined in Minn. Stat. 352.01, subd. 2, and a pension plan to be administered by the Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) for probation officers and 911 telecommunicators who are public employees, as defined in Minn. Stat. 353.01, subd. 2.

With the assistance of the commission executive director, the work group must prepare proposed legislation that implements the recommendations of the work group. If the work group recommends more than one approach to improving pension benefits, the work group must provide alternative bills. Recommended legislation must require MSRS and PERA to have any new plan or component plan operational by January 1, 2027. The chair of the work group must submit the recommendations of the work group, along with proposed legislation that implements the recommendations, to the chair and executive director of the LCPR by January 15, 2026.

The work group was created via the 2025 omnibus pension and retirement bill. The LCPR executive director was required to convene the first meeting of the work group by August 1, 2025. The work group met nine times throughout 2025 and submitted its report to the Legislature in February 2026. The work group expires June 30, 2027.

The members of the work group are the following:

• the executive director of PERA, or the executive director's designee, and a second member of the PERA staff designated by the executive director;
• the executive director of MSRS, or the executive director's designee, and a second member of the MSRS staff designated by the executive director;
• the commissioner of corrections or the commissioner's designee;
• the commissioner of public safety or the commissioner's designee;
• a representative from the Minnesota Association of County Probation Officers;
• a representative from the Minnesota Corrections Association;
• a representative from the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees;
• a representative from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 320;
• a representative from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 5;
• two representatives from the Association of Minnesota Counties;
• a representative from the League of Minnesota Cities;
• a representative from the Minnesota Inter-County Association;
• a representative from the Minnesota Association of Public Safety Communications Officials or the National Emergency Number Association of Minnesota;
• a representative from the Law Enforcement Labor Services;
• a representative from the Minnesota Association of Community Corrections Act Counties;
• a representative from the Minnesota Professional Fire Fighters Association; and
• a representative from the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association.

The commission executive director may invite others, including the commission's actuary, to participate in one or more meetings of the work group. The organizations represented on the work group must provide the commission executive director with the names and contact information for the representatives who will serve on the work group by June 14, 2025.