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SAA Opposes OPEB Bill, AB 269
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | September 9, 2015
The SAA joined the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Wisconsin Association of School Boards (WASB) in opposition to Assembly Bill 269 yesterday at a public hearing before the Assembly Urban and Local Affairs Committee.
AB 269 prohibits a local government from providing health care benefits to any employee hired on or after January 1, 2016, for use upon the employee’s retirement, unless the cost of the benefit is fully funded in a segregated account. While the SAA recognizes the best practice intent of the bill’s author, Representative Jeremy Theisfeldt (R-Fond du Lac), this one-size-fits-all approach would deny local districts the control to manage their OPEB liabilities according to their unique needs, raise actuarial and administrative costs, interfere with district recruitment/retention efforts and possibly run afoul of the anti-discrimination provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
The SAA will keep the membership updated on developments related to this important legislation.
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