Bill Text: PA HB1451 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for mandatory and optional membership; and further regulating termination of annuities.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 20-8)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-07 - Referred to FINANCE [HB1451 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB1451-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1796
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1451 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY BENNINGHOFF, BEAR, CREIGHTON, DENLINGER, FLECK, FREEMAN, GEORGE, GIBBONS, GINGRICH, GOODMAN, GROVE, HARHART, HARPER, HARRIS, HENNESSEY, LONGIETTI, METZGAR, MURT, PALLONE, PHILLIPS, PYLE, QUINN, RAPP, REICHLEY, SIPTROTH, SWANGER AND VULAKOVICH, MAY 7, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, MAY 7, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, further providing for mandatory and
optional membership; and further regulating termination of
annuities.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 5301(d) of Title 71 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 5301. Mandatory and optional membership.
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(d) Return to service.--An annuitant who returns to service
as a State employee shall resume active membership in the system
as of the effective date of employment, except as otherwise
provided in section [5706(a)] 5706(a) and (d) (relating to
termination of annuities), regardless of the optional membership
category of the position.
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Section 2. Section 5706 of Title 71 is amended by adding a
subsection to read:
§ 5706. Termination of annuities.
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(d) Exception.--An annuitant may return to State service as
a certified instructor in the municipal police officers'
education and training program, as provided in 53 Pa.C.S. § 2161
(relating to establishment of program and scope of subchapter),
without being subject to the cessation of annuity provisions in
subsection (a), provided that the annuitant shall not receive
credit for such service and further provided that no member
contributions nor employer contributions shall be credited to
the annuitant's savings account for service authorized under
this subsection.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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