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A BILL FOR AN ACT <br />RELATING TO DEFERRED RETIREMENT FOR POLICE. <br />BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII: <br />I SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the recruitment and <br />2 retention of police officers has been difficult for counties and <br />3 their respective police departments. The implementation of a <br />4 deferred retirement option program (DROP) would incentivize <br />5 qualified police officers to continue working beyond the <br />6 requisite twenty-five years of service and to carry on <br />7 protecting and serving the community. DROP has been increasingly <br />8 utilized in many other states and municipalities as an incentive <br />9 for quality workers to delay retirement. <br />10 The purpose of this Act is to establish a deferred <br />11 retirement option Program for police and to provide a retention <br />12 tool for county police departments to incentivize qualified <br />13 officers who are eligible for retirement to continue working. <br />14 SECTION 2. Section 88-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes,, is <br />15 amended as follows: <br />16 1. By amending subsection (a) to read: <br />17 "(a) (A] Except for police officers enrolled in the <br />18 deferred retirement option program, a retirant may not be <br />24-073a <br />