Bill Text: PA HB1043 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: In township supervisors, further providing for compensation of supervisors.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 11-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-14 - Referred to LOCAL GOVERNMENT [HB1043 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1043-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1130
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1043 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY HARPER, CLYMER, FABRIZIO, GINGRICH, HENNESSEY, KAUFFMAN, MILLARD, PETRI, PICKETT AND ROAE, MARCH 14, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MARCH 14, 2011
AN ACT
Amending the act of May 1, 1933 (P.L.103, No.69), entitled, as
reenacted and amended, "An act concerning townships of the
second class; and amending, revising, consolidating and
changing the law relating thereto," in township supervisors,
further providing for compensation of supervisors.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 606(c) of the act of May 1, 1933
(P.L.103, No.69), known as The Second Class Township Code,
reenacted and amended November 9, 1995 (P.L.350, No.60), is
amended to read:
Section 606. Compensation of Supervisors.--* * *
(c) In addition to the compensation authorized under this
section, supervisors while in office or while in the employ of
the township may be eligible for inclusion in township-paid
insurance plans, as follows:
(1) Supervisors, whether or not they are employed by the
township, and their dependents are eligible for inclusion in
group life, health, hospitalization, medical service and
accident insurance plans paid in whole or in part by the
township. Supervisors and their dependents who are over sixty-
five years of age are eligible for inclusion in supplemental
Medicare insurance coverage paid in whole or in part by the
township. Their inclusion in those plans does not require
auditor approval, but does require submission of a letter
requesting participation at a regularly scheduled meeting of the
board of supervisors before commencing participation. The
insurance shall be uniformly applicable to those covered and
shall not give eligibility preference to or improperly
discriminate in favor of supervisors. No policy of group life
insurance shall contain any provision for a cash surrender
value, loan value or any other benefit beyond the face amount of
insurance. The policy may contain a provision that when the
insurance ceases because of termination of employment or term of
office, the person is entitled to have issued to him by the
insurer, without evidence of insurability, an individual policy
of insurance on any form customarily issued by the insurer at
the age and for the amount applied for if the amount is not in
excess of the amount of life insurance which ceases because of
the termination and the application for the individual policy is
made and first premium is paid to the insurer within thirty-one
days after termination.
(2) Any life, health, hospitalization, medical service or
accident insurance coverage contract made by a township between
January 1, 1959, and March 31, 1985, that includes or provides
coverage for supervisors not employed by the township is not
void or unlawful because inclusion of those supervisors was
subsequently found to be without lawful authority. No penalty,
assessment, surcharge, forfeiture or disciplinary action may
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occur as a result of participation by those supervisors.
Insurance benefits paid or payable to insureds or their
beneficiaries arising out of or on account of deaths, injuries,
accidents or illnesses occurring before March 30, 1988, are the
property of the insureds or their beneficiaries.
(3) All payments made by a township on any group life,
health, hospitalization, medical service or accident insurance
coverage contracts on behalf of supervisors who were not
employes between January 1, 1959, and March 31, 1985, which
would have been proper but for the absence of auditor approval
are hereby approved. Any benefits payable to any supervisor or
his beneficiaries on account of those payments during that time
shall continue.
(4) The township may deduct from any compensation payable to
a supervisor such part of any insurance premium or charge which
is payable by the supervisor within the terms of the particular
township's insurance plan.
(5) The township may pay the cost, in whole or in part, of
supplemental Medicare insurance coverage for supervisors and
employes who are over sixty-five years of age.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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