THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY WAGNER, BROWN, BELFANTI, BRENNAN, BURNS, CALTAGIRONE, D. COSTA, DENLINGER, DONATUCCI, GRUCELA, KORTZ, MAHONEY, McGEEHAN, M. O'BRIEN, READSHAW, SANTONI, SIPTROTH AND SWANGER, AUGUST 2, 2010

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, AUGUST 2, 2010  

AN ACT

Amending the act of February 1, 1974 (P.L.34, No.15), entitled

"An act creating a Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System

for the payment of retirement allowances to officers,

employes, firemen and police of political subdivisions and

municipal authorities and of institutions supported and

maintained by political subdivisions and municipal government

associations and providing for the administration of the same

by a board composed of the State Treasurer and others

appointed by the Governor; imposing certain duties on the

Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement Board and the actuary

thereof; providing the procedure whereby political

subdivisions and municipal authorities may join such system,

and imposing certain liabilities and obligations on such

political subdivisions and municipal authorities in

connection therewith, and as to certain existing retirement

and pension systems, and upon officers, employes, firemen and

police of such political subdivisions, institutions supported

and maintained by political subdivisions, and upon municipal

authorities; providing for the continuation of certain

municipal retirement systems now administered by the

Commonwealth; providing certain exemptions from taxation,

execution, attachment, levy and sale and providing for the

repeal of certain related acts," providing for return to

work.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  The act of February 1, 1974 (P.L.34, No.15),

known as the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement Law, is amended

by adding a section to read:

Section 318.  Return to Work.--Notwithstanding any other

provision of law, a retired municipal police officer may return

to part-time duty, or may return to duty as a substitute

officer, for up to eight hundred hours per calendar year without

losing retirement benefits.

 Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.