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AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL NO. 1980

Sponsor: REPRESENTATIVE HARKINS

Printer's No. 2767

Amend Bill, page 1, line 6, by inserting after "system"

; and further providing for payment of salaries in cases

of sickness, injury or death

Amend Bill, page 10, by inserting between lines 5 and 6

Section 2.  Section 1154(c) of the act, amended December 22,

1965, (P.L.1180, No.467), is amended to read:

Section 1154.  Payment of Salaries in Cases of Sickness,

Injury or Death.--* * *

(c)  Whenever a professional or temporary professional

employe is absent because of the death of a near relative, there

shall be no deduction in the salary of said employe for absence

on the day of the funeral. The board of school directors may

extend the period of absence with pay in its discretion as the

exigencies of the case may warrant. A near relative shall be

defined as a first cousin, grandfather, grandmother, grandchild, 

aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, son-in-law, daughter-in-law,

brother-in-law or sister-in-law.

* * *

Amend Bill, page 10, line 6, by striking out "2" and

inserting

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