Allowing certain county EMS officers to participate in EMS Retirement System

Deleted a provision allowing 911, home confinement, and emergency medical services officers to pay back contributions for transferred assets and receive specific service credit rates.

Deleted a sentence on page 7 following the word 'commission', removing an unspecified clause from the text.

The definition of 'accrued benefit' for transferring officers was modified to explicitly include 'home confinement officer service credit' alongside 911 and emergency medical services officer service credit when calculating retirement benefits.

The deadline for emergency medical services officers to elect to transfer their assets from the Public Employees Retirement System was changed from July 1, 2025, to July 1, 2026.

Updated the definition of 'Home confinement officer' to require certification under §30-29-1 et seq. of the code.

Corrected a typo in subsection (b) changing 'Natural Resources Police Officers Retirement System' to 'Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System'.

Fixed a subsection reference error in subsection (g), changing the reference from 'subsection (f)' to 'subsection (g)' regarding the transfer calculation.

Added a comma after 'members' in subsection (d) to improve grammatical flow.

Added new sponsors (Senators Deeds, Morris, Hamilton, and Takubo) and updated the legislative history to show the bill was reported from the Committee on Pensions on February 18, 2026.

Changed the term 'home confinement officer' to 'emergency medical services officer' in subsection (g) and (h) of §16-5V-6g to ensure consistent terminology across the transfer provisions.

Updated the reference in subsection (h) from 'member's transferred home confinement officer' to 'member's transferred emergency medical services officer'.

Modified the bill text to explicitly state it amends and reenacts §16-5V-2 (Definitions) in addition to adding the new section §16-5V-6g.

Updated the description of the bill's purpose to clarify that it includes 'clarifying definition of accrued benefit to account for emergency medical services officers'.

Corrected a typo in subsection (c) of §16-5V-6g, changing 'as a emergency medical services officer' to 'as an emergency medical services officer'.