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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY DENLINGER, BAKER, BEAR, BEYER, BRENNAN, CALTAGIRONE, CAUSER, FABRIZIO, FLECK, GEIST, GEORGE, GIBBONS, GINGRICH, GOODMAN, GRUCELA, HARHAI, HARKINS, HARRIS, HENNESSEY, HESS, HUTCHINSON, KOTIK, LONGIETTI, MELIO, MENSCH, MUSTIO, M. O'BRIEN, O'NEILL, PERRY, PICKETT, PYLE, RAPP, READSHAW, REICHLEY, ROCK, ROHRER, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH, STEVENSON, VEREB AND WATSON, MARCH 12, 2009 |
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| REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, MARCH 12, 2009 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending Title 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania |
2 | Consolidated Statutes, further providing for definitions and |
3 | for creditable nonstate service. |
4 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
5 | hereby enacts as follows: |
6 | Section 1. Section 5102 of Title 71 of the Pennsylvania |
7 | Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a definition to read: |
8 | § 5102. Definitions. |
9 | The following words and phrases as used in this part, unless |
10 | a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall |
11 | have the following meanings: |
12 | * * * |
13 | "Municipal police officer." A full-time or part-time |
14 | employee assigned to criminal or traffic law enforcement duties |
15 | of any county, city, borough, town or township. |
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1 | Section 2. Section 5304(c) of Title 71 is amended to read: |
2 | § 5304. Creditable nonstate service. |
3 | * * * |
4 | (c) Limitations on nonstate service.--Creditable nonstate |
5 | service credit shall be limited to: |
6 | (1) intervening military service; |
7 | (2) military service other than intervening military |
8 | service and military service purchasable under section |
9 | 5302(d) (relating to credited State service) not exceeding |
10 | five years, provided that a member with multiple service may |
11 | not purchase more than a total of five years of military |
12 | service in both the system and the Public School Employees' |
13 | Retirement System; |
14 | (3) in the case of an academic administrator, teacher or |
15 | instructor employed in the Department of Education, the State |
16 | System of Higher Education, any State-owned educational |
17 | institution or The Pennsylvania State University, provided |
18 | that the total amount of service creditable under this |
19 | paragraph shall not exceed the lesser of ten years or the |
20 | number of years of active membership in the system as an |
21 | academic administrator, teacher or instructor in the |
22 | Department of Education, State System of Higher Education, |
23 | any State-owned educational institution or The Pennsylvania |
24 | State University: |
25 | (i) nonstudent service as an academic administrator, |
26 | teacher or instructor in any public school or public |
27 | educational institution in any state other than this |
28 | Commonwealth; or |
29 | (ii) nonstudent service as an academic |
30 | administrator, teacher or instructor in the field of |
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1 | education for any agency or department of the Federal |
2 | Government, whether or not such area was under the |
3 | jurisdiction of the United States; |
4 | (4) previous service with a governmental agency other |
5 | than the Commonwealth which employment with said agency was |
6 | terminated because of the transfer by statute of the |
7 | administration of such service or of the entire agency to the |
8 | Commonwealth; |
9 | (5) service as a temporary Federal employee assigned to |
10 | an air quality control complement for the Pennsylvania |
11 | Department of Environmental Resources at any time during the |
12 | period of 1970 through 1975. This service time may be |
13 | purchased only if the member makes an election to purchase |
14 | within one year of the effective date of this paragraph, and |
15 | the member shall pay an amount which is equal to the full |
16 | actuarial cost of the increased benefit obtained by virtue of |
17 | the purchase as provided in section 5505(f); |
18 | (6) service in the Cadet Nurse Corps with respect to any |
19 | period of training as a student or graduate nurse under a |
20 | plan approved under section 2 of the act of June 15, 1943 |
21 | (Public Law 78-73, 57 Stat. 153), if the total period of |
22 | training under such plan was at least two years, the credit |
23 | for such service not to exceed three years; |
24 | (7) service prior to July 1, 1971, at a community |
25 | college established under the act of August 24, 1963 |
26 | (P.L.1132, No.484), known as the Community College Act of |
27 | 1963; [or] |
28 | (8) service as a justice of the peace prior to January |
29 | 1970[.]; or |
30 | (9) service as a municipal police officer within this |
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1 | Commonwealth by a member of the Pennsylvania State Police, |
2 | the credit for such service not to exceed five years. |
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4 | Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days. |
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