Chapter 238 Teachers' Retirement System
- 238.01 Definitions.
The following words and phrases as used in this chapter shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context:...
- 238.02 Name and date of establishment.
A retirement system is established and placed under the management of the Department of Management Services for the purpose of providing retirement allowances and other...
- 238.021 Teachers' Retirement System; plans.
The Teachers' Retirement System shall be deemed to be divided into five plans to be designated plans A, B, C, D, and E and ss....
- 238.03 Administration.
(1) The general administration and the responsibility for the proper operation of the retirement system and for making effective the provisions of this chapter are vested...
- 238.05 Membership.
(1) The membership of the retirement system shall consist of the following: (a) All persons who were teachers at any time during the school years 1936-1937 through...
- 238.06 Membership application, creditable service, and time for making contributions.
(1) Under such rules and regulations as the Division of Retirement shall adopt, each teacher upon becoming a member shall file with the division an application...
- 238.07 Regular benefits; survivor benefits.
(1) If any member retires and before his or her death fails to select one of the optional benefits set forth in s. 238.08, the member's...
- 238.071 Social security benefits; determination of retirement allowance.
Any member of the Teachers' Retirement System who has heretofore or who hereafter retires and has his or her retirement allowance redetermined under the provisions...
- 238.072 Special service provisions for extension personnel.
All state and county cooperative extension personnel holding appointments by the United States Department of Agriculture for extension work in agriculture and home economics in...
- 238.08 Optional benefits.
A member may elect to receive his or her benefits under the terms of this chapter according to the provisions of any one of the...
- 238.09 Method of financing.
All of the assets of the retirement system shall be credited, according to the purposes for which they are held, to one of four funds;...
- 238.10 Management of funds.
The Department of Management Services, annually, shall allow regular interest on the amount for the preceding year to the credit of each of the funds...
- 238.11 Collection of contributions.
(1) The collection of contributions shall be as follows: (a) Each employer shall cause to be deducted from each and every payment of salary of a member,...
- 238.12 Duties of employers.
(1) Each employer shall keep such records and, from time to time, shall furnish such information as the Department of Management Services may require in the...
- 238.13 Limitation on membership.
(1) No other provision of law in any other statute which provides wholly or partly at the expense of the state for pensions or for retirement...
- 238.14 Protection against fraud.
Any person who shall knowingly make any false statement, or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of this retirement system...
- 238.15 Exemption of funds from taxation, execution, and assignment.
The pensions, annuities or any other benefits accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of this chapter and the accumulated contributions and cash...
- 238.16 Penalties.
Any person subject to the terms and provisions of this chapter, including the individual members of all boards, who shall violate any of the provisions...
- 238.17 Employees of nonprofit professional association or corporation of teachers functioning on a statewide basis; intent.
It is the intent of this section to grant to employees of a nonprofit professional association or corporation of teachers who are or become members...
- 238.171 Monthly allowance; when made.
(1) Whenever any person has served as a teacher in the public schools of Florida or has served therein as superintendent, or both, for an aggregate...
- 238.172 Proof required.
For any person to obtain the allowance as set forth in s. 238.171 the person shall make such proof of the facts and conditions entitling...
- 238.173 Monthly allowance to widows or widowers of pensioners.
When any teacher, drawing pension under s. 238.171, shall die leaving surviving a widow or widower to whom such pensioner has been married for a...
- 238.174 Appropriation for monthly allowance to incapacitated teachers.
There is appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sufficient sum of money to meet the requirements of s....
- 238.175 Members with prior service in federally operated state schools; eligibility for special credits.
(1) Any member of the Teachers' Retirement System or the Florida Retirement System established respectively by this chapter and chapter 121 who taught in a public...
- 238.181 Reemployment after retirement; conditions and limitations.
(1) Any person who is retired under this chapter, except under the disability provisions of s. 238.07, may be employed by an employer that does not...
- 238.183 Developmental research school and Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind instructional personnel; reemployment after retirement.
(1) Notwithstanding any other law, instructional personnel, as defined in s. 1012.01(2), employed by a developmental research school or the Florida School for the Deaf and...
- 238.184 Charter school instructional personnel; reemployment after retirement.
Effective July 1, 2004, the director or principal of a charter school participating in the Florida Retirement System may reemploy a retired member as a...
- 238.31 Provision for modification of plan E.
Notwithstanding any provision contained herein to the contrary the provisions relating to retirement under s. 238.07(2)(e) shall be subject to amendment or modification by subsequent...
- 238.32 Service credit in disputed cases.
The Department of Management Services may in its discretion allow or deny a member service credit in disputed or doubtful cases for employment in Florida...
- 238.325 Statements of purpose and intent and other provisions required for qualification under the Internal Revenue Code of the United States.
Any other provisions in this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding, it is specifically provided that: (1) The purpose of this chapter is to provide pension benefits...
