PRINTER'S NO. 662
No. 613 Session of 1987
INTRODUCED BY VAN HORNE, TRELLO, IRVIS, MOWERY, FOSTER, NOYE,
KUKOVICH, VEON, GODSHALL, HECKLER, PRESTON, BURD, HALUSKA,
OLASZ, FARGO, SEVENTY, COLAFELLA AND WOZNIAK, MARCH 3, 1987
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, MARCH 3, 1987
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of May 7, 1965 (P.L.48, No.38), entitled "A
2 supplement to the act of May 28, 1915 (P.L.596, No.259),
3 entitled 'An act requiring cities of the second class to
4 establish a pension fund for employes of said cities, and
5 regulating the administration and the payment of such
6 pensions,' as to employes of second class A cities, reducing
7 the number of years of employment to qualify for a pension;
8 and increasing pension payments and contributions," further
9 providing for contributions by members.
10 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
11 hereby enacts as follows:
12 Section 1. Section 3 of the act of May 7, 1965 (P.L.48,
13 No.38), entitled "A supplement to the act of May 28, 1915
14 (P.L.596, No.259), entitled 'An act requiring cities of the
15 second class to establish a pension fund for employes of said
16 cities, and regulating the administration and the payment of
17 such pensions,' as to employes of second class A cities,
18 reducing the number of years of employment to qualify for a
19 pension; and increasing pension payments and contributions," is
20 amended to read:
21 Section 3. [The] (a) Except to the extent that subsection
1 (c) of section 607 of the act of December 18, 1984 (P.L.1005,
2 No.205), known as the "Municipal Pension Plan Funding Standard
3 and Recovery Act," applies, the city employes and contributing
4 members to the fund shall after the passage of this act pay unto
5 the board of pensions monthly an amount equal to three per
6 centum of their monthly salaries or wages, in no event, however,
7 paying at a rate greater than six dollars ($6) a month, which
8 shall be applied to the purpose of this act. Payment of the
9 monthly amount or contribution herein mentioned shall cease and
10 be discontinued at the time the beneficiary receives the pension
11 herein provided, except for contributions required to be made to
12 complete a twenty-year period of contribution, as provided in
13 subsections (a) and (b) of section 2 of this act.
14 (b) If for any cause an employe contributing to the pension
15 fund shall cease to be an employe of any such city of the second
16 class A before said employe becomes entitled to the pensions
17 conferred by this act, the total amount of the contributions
18 paid into the pension fund by such employe shall be refunded to
19 him or her in full, without interest; provided, however, if any
20 such employe shall have returned to him or her the amount
21 contributed as aforesaid and shall afterward re-enter the employ
22 of such city, said employe shall not be entitled to the pension
23 designated until twenty years after said re-employment unless he
24 or she shall return to the pension fund the amount withdrawn,
25 plus interest, in which event the period of twenty years shall
26 be computed from the time said employe first entered the service
27 of said city.
28 (c) In the event of the death of any such employe before the
29 said employe becomes entitled to the pension aforesaid, the said
30 total amount of contributions aforesaid shall be paid over to
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1 the estate of the said deceased employe or his or her designated
2 beneficiary. In the event of the death of any employe collecting
3 the pension aforesaid, the total amount of contributions over
4 and above that paid to the deceased employe shall be paid over
5 to the estate of the said deceased employe, or his or her
6 designated beneficiary.
7 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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