State Rep. Rex Damschroder, R-Fremont, announced Thursday that he has introduced legislation to ban "double dipping" for Ohio government workers, the practice that allows them to collect retirement benefits if they return to public employment after retiring.
House Bill 388 would suspend retirement benefits of a public retirement system retiree who returns to public employment.
Of course, they are right up front about the fact that this means you public workers, but not "us" the legislators themselves:
Sec. 145.01. As used in this chapter:
(A) "Public employee" means:
(1) Any person holding an office, not elective, . . .
During the Issue 2 referendum it was documented that 11 pro-SB5 Republican lawmakers that reported receiving pensions from either or both of the two state public employee pension systems.
For example, Speaker Batchelder himself has collected over $500,000 in pension payments from Ohio Public Employee Retirement System (OPERS) all while collecting hundreds of thousands in legislative salary during the last five years.
Suprise, suprise the Speaker had no immediate reaction to the proposal or to is prospects in the GOP-controlled House, Shannon Boston, Batchelder's spokeswoman, said in an email.
"... the Speaker will not be offering any comments on House Bill 388 at this time until he has had a chance to review the legislation with the caucus and with Representative Damschroder," Boston said.
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