The public employee retirement administration commission, established under section 49, shall have general responsibility for the efficient administration of the public employee retirement system, under chapter 32. The public employee retirement administration commission's powers and duties shall include, but not be limited to:
- (a) promulgating rules and regulations governing administrative procedures, financial operations, records and reports of the retirement boards, subject to the approval of the general court; provided, that if the general court takes no final action relative to such rules and regulations within forty-five days of the date said such rules and regulations are filed with the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate, the general court not having prorogued within said forty-five days such rules and regulations shall be deemed to be approved;
- (b) approving the rules and regulations of individual retirement boards, as to conformity with law and regulations;
- (c) performing regular desk examinations and field examinations as indicated, of all retirement systems, at least once every three years;
- (d) collecting data on retirement systems, disability benefits and the rehabilitation and reemployment of injured workers and providing statistical and other reports and information to the governor and the general court, and to the public;
- (e) determining charges of the various municipal retirement systems and the county boards to participating governmental units;
- (f) providing training and legal and technical assistance to retirement boards;
- (g) developing and maintaining information covering both superannuation and disability grants on the basis of occupational groups;
- (h) review disability pensions in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-one of chapter thirty-two;
- (i) developing and maintaining a list of facilities qualified to recommend or furnish rehabilitation services to injured or disabled workers;
(j) developing an effective program and procedures for the reemployment of injured or disabled workers and shall make said programs available to any employee seeking reemployment;
[There are no clauses (k) or (l).]