SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1247
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR QUICK.
Read 1st time February 28, 2002, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
2953S.02I
AN ACT
To amend chapter 87, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the division of certain pension benefits.
Section A. Chapter 87, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 87.487, to read as follows:
87.487. The provisions of section 87.485 to the contrary notwithstanding, a pension fund for firefighters located in a home rule city with a population of more than four hundred thousand inhabitants and located in more than one county shall recognize a domestic relations order and pay pension benefits directly to a spouse or former spouse of a participant, if such domestic relations order assigns a spouse or former spouse all or a portion of a participant's pension benefits payable by the pension fund, is properly entered in a court of competent jurisdiction in accordance with the state's domestic relation's law and complies with the rules and procedures of the pension fund.