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2008 Arkansas Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (2008)

handle is hein.sag/sagar0010 and id is 1 raw text is: j1ijE Si, STATE OF ARKANSAS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL DuSTIN McDANIEL Opinion No. 2008-057 July 8, 2008 The Honorable Steve Faris State Senator 29476 Highway 67 Malvern, Arkansas 72104-6833 Dear Senator Faris: I am writing in response to your request for an opinion concerning the constitutionality of a bill that you are considering proposing at the next regular session of the General Assembly. You ask: Specifically, I would like to know whether legislation that would curtail the Deferred Option Retirement Plan (DROP) found in Ark. Code Ann. § 24-4-801 et seq. for some categories of state employees who presently are entitled to elect that benefit would be constitutional, assuming that such legislation would operate only prospectively and would not affect those state employees who had elected to participate in the existing DROP before the effective date of the considered legislation. RESPONSE As you acknowledge in your request, it is impossible to fully address this question in the abstract, without reference to any specific proposed legislation. It would also be important to know the precise categories of state employees to be impacted. I will assume for purposes of your request, however, that the proposed legislation would eliminate the existing DROP for members of the Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System (APERS) who had not met the eligibility requirements to participate in DROP, and for those who had met the requirements 323 CENTER STREET, SurE 200 LITLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 72201 TELEPHONE (501) 682-2007 * FAx (501) 682-8084 INTERNET WEBSITE * http://www.ag.state.ar.us/

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