Bill Text: PA HB337 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for creditable nonschool service, for creditable nonstate service for service performed as a crewleader with the Pennsylvania Conservation Corps and for mandatory and optional membership.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 13-7)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-10 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB337 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB337-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 368
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 337 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY BAKER, ARGALL, CAUSER, STERN, BEYER, CLYMER, COHEN, FLECK, GIBBONS, GINGRICH, JOSEPHS, M. KELLER, MURT, RAPP, SIPTROTH, THOMAS AND YOUNGBLOOD, FEBRUARY 10, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 10, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Titles 24 (Education) and 71 (State Government) of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for
creditable nonschool service, for creditable nonstate service
for service performed as a crewleader with the Pennsylvania
Conservation Corps and for mandatory and optional membership.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 8304(b) of Title 24 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a paragraph to read:
§ 8304. Creditable nonschool service.
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(b) Limitations on nonschool service.--Creditable nonschool
service credit shall be limited to:
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(9) Service as a crewleader prior to January 1, 2010,
with the Pennsylvania Conservation Corps, not to exceed a
total of five years. In order to elect to purchase the
service credit, an active member must file an application
with the board no later than three years after the effective
date of this subsection or three years after subsequent entry
into school service, whichever occurs last. The Department of
Labor and Industry may charge an applicant a fee necessary to
cover the administrative costs incurred in verifying the
applicant's eligibility for the purchase of service.
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Section 2. Section 8324 of Title 24 is amended by adding a
subsection to read:
§ 8324. Contributions for purchase of credit for creditable
nonschool service.
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(g) Creditable service as a crewleader with the Pennsylvania
Conservation Corps.--Contributions on account of T-C credit for
creditable service as a crewleader with the Pennsylvania
Conservation Corps pursuant to section 8304(b)(9) shall be the
present value of the full actuarial cost of the increase in the
projected superannuation annuity caused by the additional
service credited on account of the purchase of service as a
crewleader with the Pennsylvania Conservation Corps. The amount
paid for the purchase of credit for service as a crewleader with
the Pennsylvania Conservation Corps shall not be payable as a
lump sum under section 8345(a)(4)(iii).
Section 3. Section 5301 of Title 71 is amended by adding a
subsection to read:
§ 5301. Mandatory and optional membership.
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(g) Further additional optional membership.--Beginning
January 1, 2010, individuals employed as crewleaders of the
Pennsylvania Conservation Corps, pursuant to the act of July 2,
1984 (P.L.561, No.112), known as the Pennsylvania Conservation
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Corps Act, shall have the option to elect membership in the
system. The election of membership in the system shall be
irrevocable and shall be made by filing written notice with the
employer no later than 90 days following the effective date of
this subsection or no later than 90 days following the effective
date of employment in the case of a newly hired employee. Upon
receipt of the election, the employer shall certify the election
to the board. Employees who elect membership in the system under
this subsection shall remain members of the system until the
effective date of termination as a crewleader. An employee
described in this subsection who fails to timely elect
membership in the system shall be prohibited from electing
membership in the system for the duration of employment with the
Pennsylvania Conservation Corps. If an employee described in
this subsection terminates service and becomes a State employee
with an employer other than the Pennsylvania Conservation Corps,
then membership for that employee shall be determined as
otherwise provided for in this section.
Section 4. Section 5304(c) of Title 71 is amended to read:
§ 5304. Creditable nonstate service.
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(c) Limitations on nonstate service.--Creditable nonstate
service credit shall be limited to:
(1) [intervening] Intervening military service[;].
(2) [military] Military service other than intervening
military service and military service purchasable under
section 5302(d) (relating to credited State service) not
exceeding five years, provided that a member with multiple
service may not purchase more than a total of five years of
military service in both the system and the Public School
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Employees' Retirement System[;].
(3) [in] In the case of an academic administrator,
teacher or instructor employed in the Department of
Education, the State System of Higher Education, any State-
owned educational institution or The Pennsylvania State
University, provided that the total amount of service
creditable under this paragraph shall not exceed the lesser
of ten years or the number of years of active membership in
the system as an academic administrator, teacher or
instructor in the Department of Education, State System of
Higher Education, any State-owned educational institution or
The Pennsylvania State University:
(i) nonstudent service as an academic administrator,
teacher or instructor in any public school or public
educational institution in any state other than this
Commonwealth; or
(ii) nonstudent service as an academic
administrator, teacher or instructor in the field of
education for any agency or department of the Federal
Government, whether or not such area was under the
jurisdiction of the United States[;].
(4) [previous] Previous service with a governmental
agency other than the Commonwealth which employment with said
agency was terminated because of the transfer by statute of
the administration of such service or of the entire agency to
the Commonwealth[;].
(5) [service] Service as a temporary Federal employee
assigned to an air quality control complement for the
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources at any
time during the period of 1970 through 1975. This service
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time may be purchased only if the member makes an election to
purchase within one year of the effective date of this
paragraph, and the member shall pay an amount which is equal
to the full actuarial cost of the increased benefit obtained
by virtue of the purchase as provided in section 5505(f)[;].
(6) [service] Service in the Cadet Nurse Corps with
respect to any period of training as a student or graduate
nurse under a plan approved under section 2 of the act of
June 15, 1943 (Public Law 78-73, 57 Stat. 153), if the total
period of training under such plan was at least two years,
the credit for such service not to exceed three years[;].
(7) [service] Service prior to July 1, 1971, at a
community college established under the act of August 24,
1963 (P.L.1132, No.484), known as the Community College Act
of 1963[; or].
(8) [service] Service as a justice of the peace prior to
January 1970.
(9) Service as a crewleader prior to January 1, 2010,
with the Pennsylvania Conservation Corps, not to exceed a
total of five years. In order to elect to purchase the
service credit, an active member must file an application
with the board no later than three years after the effective
date of this subsection or three years after subsequent entry
into State service, whichever occurs last. The Department of
Labor and Industry may charge an applicant a fee necessary to
cover the administrative costs incurred in verifying the
applicant's eligibility for the purchase of service.
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Section 5. Section 5505 of Title 71 is amended by adding a
subsection to read:
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§ 5505. Contributions for the purchase of credit for creditable
nonstate service.
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(i) Creditable service as a crewleader with the Pennsylvania
Conservation Corps.--Contributions on account of Class A credit
for creditable service as a crewleader with the Pennsylvania
Conservation Corps pursuant to section 5304 shall be the present
value of the full actuarial cost of the increase in the
projected superannuation annuity caused by the additional
service credited on account of the purchase of service as a
crewleader with the Pennsylvania Conservation Corps. The amount
paid for the purchase of credit for service as a crewleader with
the Pennsylvania Conservation Corps shall not be payable as a
lump sum under section 5705(a)(4)(iii) (relating to member's
options).
Section 6. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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