Bill Text: PA HB128 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for credit for military service.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-3)

Status: (Passed) 2014-06-18 - Act No. 58 [HB128 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2013-HB128-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO.  126

 

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

 

HOUSE BILL

No.

128

Session of 2013

 

 

 

INTRODUCED BY HAGGERTY, MICOZZIE, NEILSON, DEAN, KORTZ AND CALTAGIRONE, JANUARY 16, 2013

 

 

REFERRED TO COMMITEE ON URBAN AFFAIRS, JANUARY 16, 2013

 

 

 

AN ACT

 

Amending the act of September 23, 1959 (P.L.970, No.400),
entitled "An act providing for the creation, maintenance and
operation of an employes' retirement system in cities of the
second class A, and imposing certain charges on cities of the
second class A and school districts in cities of the second
class A," further providing for credit for military service.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 12 of the act of September 23, 1959 
(P.L.970, No.400), referred to as the Second Class A City 
Employe Pension Law, amended July 15, 1968 (P.L.342, No.167), is 
amended to read:

Section 12.  Credit for Military Service; Payment into Fund;
Reimbursement.--Any city employe who, on or after September 16,
1940, has been employed by the city for a period of six months
and who, on or subsequent to such date, shall have enlisted or
been inducted into the military service of the United States in
time of war, armed conflict or national emergency so proclaimed
by the President or the Congress of the United States, shall
have credited to his employment record, for retirement benefits,

all of the time spent by him in such military service during the
continuance of such war, armed conflict, or national emergency,
and such payments as were heretofore or shall hereafter be
required to be made during such period by such city employe into
the city employes' retirement fund shall be paid into such fund
by the city. Any employes who have made payments into the city
employes' retirement fund, for which payments the city is liable
under the provisions of this act, shall be reimbursed by the
city to the full extent of such payments or be given credit
towards future payments under this act.

Any member of the pension fund who is a contributor and who
served in the armed forces of the United States subsequent to
September 1, 1940, and who was not a member of the pension fund
prior to such military service, and who commenced employment in
city service [within three years from] after the date of release
from active duty, [may, as the city or school district shall
determine,] shall be entitled to have full credit for each year
or fraction thereof, not to exceed five years of such service
upon his payment to the pension fund an amount equal to that
which he would have paid had he been a member during the period
for which he desires credit, computed with reference to the
compensation he received upon entry into city service and his
current percentage of salary deductions, and an additional
amount as the equivalent of the contributions of the city and
school district on account of such military service, which
amount may be paid in a lump sum or by installments as may be
approved by the board.

Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.