[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 1372

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

By Assemblyman STUHLTRAGER

An Act allowing the transfer of funds by certain public employees participating in the Supplemental Annuity Collective Trust and supplementing P.L.1963, c.123 (C.52:18A-107 et seq.).

    Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

    1. Employees of the Department of Education, the Commission on Higher Education, or the governing body of any public institution of higher education who are participants in the Supplemental Annuity Collective Trust pursuant to section 403(b) of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, may¹:

    a.¹ transfer all or a portion of ¹[their] any¹ funds ¹[from] that they may have invested as participants in¹ the Supplemental Annuity Collective Trust to a tax-deferred annuity with an insurer or mutual fund company authorized to provide investment contracts under the alternate benefit program pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1995, c.92 (C.52:18A-113.2 et seq.)¹; or

    b. transfer all or a portion of any funds that they may have invested in a tax-deferred annuity with any authorized provider to the Supplemental Annuity Collective Trust¹.

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Allows certain public employees to transfer funds between Supplemental Annuity Collective Trust and alternate annuity vendors.