Adomeit, chairman of the commission that oversees the retirement division of the state comptroller’s office, said in his letter to legislators: “HB 5538 orders us to do what federal law orders us not to do. HB 5538 requires us to continue pension payments to [MERS] police officers who take early retirement and go to work in a Connecticut public school system. Federal law requires us to do just the opposite — it requires us to suspend their pension payments until they cease that work. ... Simply put, the commission cannot implement HB 5538 without violating our fiduciary duties as Trustees.”