PRINTER'S NO. 733
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
669
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY REGAN, BARTOLOTTA, YUDICHAK, PITTMAN, MARTIN AND
ARGALL, MAY 10, 2021
REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, MAY 10, 2021
AN ACT
Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in municipal pensions, providing for
pension service credit for prior service with police
department.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 91 of Title 53 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subchapter to read:
SUBCHAPTER C
POLICE PENSION PLANS
Sec.
9121. Definitions.
9122. Pension service credit for prior service with police
department.
9123. Computation of amount due.
9124. Ineligibility.
§ 9121. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter
shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
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context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Police department." This term shall have the same meaning
as provided under section 2162 (relating to definitions).
"Police officer." This term shall have the same meaning as
provided under section 2162.
§ 9122. Pension service credit for prior service with police
department.
A city, other than a city of the first class, borough, town,
township or regional police department shall amend its ordinance
or resolution establishing a police pension fund to provide
full-time police officers the option to purchase up to five
years of pension service credit for prior part-time or full-time
police service provided in a police department.
§ 9123. Computation of amount due.
The amount due for the purchase of credit for prior police
service shall be computed by:
(1) multiplying the normal cost rate for the police
pension plan a police officer is buying into, but not to
exceed 10%, by the police officer's average annual rate of
compensation over the first three years of service with the
police department; and
(2) multiplying the product from paragraph (1) by the
number of years and fractional part of a year of creditable
prior police service being purchased together with interest
at the rate of 4.75% compounded annually from the date of
initial entry into full-time service with the police
department to the date of payment.
§ 9124. Ineligibility.
The following apply:
(1) No police officer shall be eligible to purchase
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service credit for prior police service for which the officer
otherwise receives or is entitled to receive pension service
credit from any other pension fund.
(2) No police officer shall be eligible to purchase
service credit for prior police service that combined with
credited military service exceeds five years.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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