PRINTER'S NO. 2394
No. 1953 Session of 1991
INTRODUCED BY NAHILL, TIGUE, NOYE, JOHNSON, GERLACH AND BUNT,
AUGUST 2, 1991
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, AUGUST 2, 1991
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 24 (Education) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for an additional class of
3 creditable nonschool service.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 8304 of Title 24 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 8304. Creditable nonschool service.
9 (a) Eligibility.--An active member or a multiple service
10 member who is an active member of the State Employees'
11 Retirement System shall be eligible to receive Class T-C service
12 credit for creditable nonschool service as set forth in
13 subsection (b) provided that he is not entitled to receive,
14 eligible to receive now or in the future, or is receiving
15 retirement benefits for such service under a retirement system
16 administered and wholly or partially paid for by any other
17 governmental agency or by any private employer, or a retirement
18 program approved by the employer in accordance with section
1 8301(a)(1) (relating to mandatory and optional membership), and
2 further provided that such service is certified by the previous
3 employer and the manner of payment of the amount due is agreed
4 upon by the member, the employer, and the board.
5 (b) Limitations on nonschool service.--Creditable nonschool
6 service credit shall be limited to:
7 (1) Intervening military service.
8 (2) Other military service not exceeding five years.
9 (3) Service in any public school or public educational
10 institution in any state other than this Commonwealth or in
11 any territory or area under the jurisdiction of the United
12 States. This paragraph includes service, prior to July 1,
13 1965, at a community college established under the act of
14 August 24, 1963 (P.L.1132, No.484), known as the Community
15 College Act of 1963.
16 (4) Service as an administrator, teacher, or instructor
17 in the field of public school education for any agency or
18 department of the government of the United States whether or
19 not such area was under the jurisdiction of the United
20 States.
21 (5) Previous service as an employee of a county board of
22 school directors which employment was terminated because of
23 the transfer of the administration of such service or of the
24 entire agency to a governmental entity.
25 (6) Previous service as a county employee as a nurse.
26 For every three years or major fraction thereof in previous
27 work experience, an individual may buy one year of creditable
28 service, not to exceed a total of five years. The purchase of
29 this service shall begin within three years of the employee's
30 eligibility to purchase this creditable service.
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1 (7) Services between 1965 and 1981 as either an
2 executive director, regional supervisor or vocational
3 consultant related to vocational education under the employ
4 of a State-related university or of a county or regional
5 vocational-technical school.
6 (c) Limitations on years of credit.--Service listed in
7 subsection (b)(3) and (4) must have been for a period of at
8 least one school year and credit for such service shall be
9 limited to the lesser of 12 years or the number of years of
10 school service credited in the system. In no case shall the
11 total credit for nonschool service other than that listed in
12 subsection (b)(5) or (7) exceed the number of years of school
13 service credited in the system, plus, in the case of a multiple
14 service member, any additional years of State service credited
15 in the State Employees' Retirement System.
16 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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