16 CSR 10-4.005 Requirements for Membership

Title 16—RETIREMENT SYSTEMS

Division 10—The Public School Retirement System of Missouri

Chapter 4—Membership and Creditable Service

PROPOSED AMENDMENT

16 CSR 10-4.005 Requirements for Membership.  The Public School Retirement System is adding a new section (8).

PURPOSE: This amendment is to clarify that any Department of Elementary and Secondary Education issued teaching certificate that is inactive is valid for Public School Retirement System membership eligibility and to further clarify that any Department of Elementary and Secondary Education issued teaching certificate that was expired on or after August 28, 2003, is not expired for Public School Retirement System eligibility and is considered inactive with listed exceptions.

(8) The possession of a valid Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE)-issued certificate is one of the requirements for Public School Retirement System (PSRS) membership. An inactive certificate is valid for PSRS membership eligibility.  A certificate that expired on or after August 28, 2003, is valid for PSRS membership eligibility except for Provisional (two-year, non-renewable); Temporary Authorization (one-year, renewable); Career Education Temporary (one-year, renewable); Voc I, Voc II and Voc III (two-year, five-year and 10-year certificates); and Visiting Scholar (one-year, renewable).

Authority: section 169.020, RSMo Supp. 2024.* Original rule filed June 23, 1998, effective Jan. 30, 1999. Amended: Filed Aug. 29, 2003, effective Feb. 29, 2004. Amended: Filed Sept. 1, 2005, effective Feb. 28, 2006. Amended: Filed June 24, 2013, effective Jan. 30, 2014. Amended: Filed February 2, 2026.

*Original authority: 169.020, RSMo 1945, amended 1951, 1953, 1967, 1973, 1983, 1990, 1995, 1996,1998,2005,2009,2013.

PUBLIC COST: This proposed amendment will not cost state agencies or political subdivisions more than five hundred dollars ($500) in the aggregate.

PRIVATE COST: This proposed amendment will not cost private entities more than five hundred dollars ($500) in the aggregate.

NOTICE TO SUBMIT COMMENTS: Anyone may file a statement in support of or in opposition to this proposed amendment with Ashley Meyerpeter, [email protected], P.O Box 268, Jefferson City, MO 65102. To be considered, comments must be received within thirty (30) days after publication of this notice in the Missouri Register. No public hearing is scheduled.