PRINTER'S NO. 1658
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1185
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY SANTARSIERO, SCHREIBER, FRANKEL, M. DALEY, THOMAS,
SCHLOSSBERG, BROWNLEE, ROZZI, KINSEY, O'BRIEN, McNEILL, SIMS,
HARKINS, GALLOWAY AND DEAN, JUNE 1, 2015
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, JUNE 1, 2015
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,
employees, 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," in general provisions,
further providing for the definitions of "beneficiary" and
"survivor annuitant"; in provisions relating to municipal
employes, providing for rights of municipal employes'
spouses, and further providing for options on superannuation
or early retirement; in provisions relating to municipal
firemen and municipal police, further providing for options
on superannuation or early retirement; and, in optional
retirement plans, further providing for options on
superannuation or early retirement.
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