House Bill 152: YOUR VOICE IS NEEDED NOW
A WAKE-UP CALL TO ALL STRS MEMBERS

If the state legislature passes HB 152, all school boards in Ohio will be required to offer alternative retirement plans (meaning other than STRS and SERS) to all employees with up to five years of service. Because a substantial number of those affected are educators contributing to STRS, this could pose an extremely serious threat to our pension system.

Of the five state pension systems (Public Employees Retirement System, State Teachers Retirement System, School Employees Retirement System, Police and Fire Pension Fund, State Highway Patrol Retirement System), ONLY STRS AND SERS ARE BEING TARGETED. We must join forces to STOP this bill, and to demand to know why WE and SERS are the ONLY TWO being targeted. WHY NOT ALL FIVE PENSION SYSTEMS?

E-mail Addresses and telephone numbers for HB 152 (for mailing addresses, click here):

Rep. Chris Widener, SPONSOR: district84@ohr.state.oh.us (614) 466-1470

Rep. Bill Seitz, CO-SPONSOR: district30@ohr.state.oh.us (614) 466-8258

Rep. Larry Flowers, CO-SPONSOR: district19@ohr.state.oh.us (614) 466-4847

Rep. Courtney Eric Combs, CO-SPONSOR: district54@ohr.state.oh.us (614) 644-6721