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NOm® s <br /> A BILL FOR AN ACT <br /> RELATING TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM. <br /> BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATUREF THE STATE OF HAWAII: <br /> 1 SECTION 1. The legislature finds existing state law requires <br /> 2 a police officer employed after .lune 30, 2012, to meet both age <br /> 3 and years of service requirements for retirement. An officer hired <br /> 4 after this date is required to have twenty-five years of service <br /> 5 and have attained the age of fifty-five. According to a study by <br /> 6 the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the years of <br /> 7 potential life lost for police officers was twenty-one times <br /> 8 greater than that of the general population. Police officers <br /> 9 generally have shorter life expectancy due to stress, shift work, <br /> 10 obesity, and exposure to hazardous work environments. The study <br /> 11 also found that a male police officer who reached age fifty between <br /> 12 1950 and 2005 was expected to live only 7.8 additional years, while <br /> 13 a male in the general population of the United States that reached <br /> 14 age fifty in the same time period was expected to live an <br /> 15 additional thirty-five years. Further, male police officers aged <br /> 16 fifty to fifty-four years had a nearly forty percent probability <br /> 17 of death compared to a one percent probability for males in the <br /> 1S general population in the same age category. <br /> 003(2)abi1101 <br />