Legislators protect pension perk

Sen. Marv Hagedorn, R-Meridian, unsuccessfully proposed legislation in the Senate State Affairs Committee this morning to repeal a 1990 law that allows longtime state legislators who, late in their careers, are appointed to high-paying full-time state positions to count their years of legislative service as full-time, thereby ballooning their retirement pensions. “This basically sets the calculations to reflect our part-time status as it is today in that calculation for retirement,” Hagedorn told the committee. “And this would be effective Dec. 1, 2018 for new legislative members that start their careers, or those of us who get re-elected to come back”/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.