PRINTER'S NO. 2514
No. 2025 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY CIVERA, BELARDI, GEIST, DEMPSEY, PETTIT, COY,
LEDERER, MAYERNIK, GIGLIOTTI, SCHULER, COLAFELLA, BELFANTI,
LAUGHLIN, RAYMOND, STISH, TRELLO, COLAIZZO, PESCI, JAMES,
HENNESSEY, BROWN, WOGAN, WALKO, CURRY, ROONEY, L. I. COHEN,
GANNON, KENNEY, YOUNGBLOOD, CAPPABIANCA, TIGUE, OLASZ,
GRUPPO, STABACK AND O'BRIEN, SEPTEMBER 25, 1995
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SEPTEMBER 25, 1995
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of December 14, 1988 (P.L.1192, No.147),
2 entitled "An act requiring municipal retirement systems to
3 pay special ad hoc postretirement adjustments to certain
4 retired police officers and firefighters; providing for the
5 financing of these adjustments; providing for the
6 administration of the Commonwealth's reimbursements for these
7 adjustments; and making repeals," further providing for
8 special ad hoc postretirement adjustments to certain persons;
9 further providing for financing and certification of payments
10 and for Commonwealth reimbursement.
11 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
12 hereby enacts as follows:
13 Section 1. Sections 301, 302(a), 303, 502 and 901(a) of the
14 act of December 14, 1988 (P.L.1192, No.147), known as the
15 Special Ad Hoc Municipal Police and Firefighter Postretirement
16 Adjustment Act, are amended to read:
17 Section 301. Entitlement to special ad hoc adjustment.
18 A municipal retirement system shall pay a retired police
19 officer or firefighter a special ad hoc municipal police and
20 firefighter postretirement adjustment under this chapter if all
1 of the following apply:
2 (1) The retiree has terminated active employment with
3 the municipality as a police officer or firefighter.
4 (2) The retiree is receiving a retirement annuity,
5 retirement benefit, service pension or disability pension
6 benefit from a municipal retirement system on the basis of
7 active employment with a municipality as a police officer or
8 firefighter.
9 (3) The retiree began receiving the retirement annuity,
10 retirement benefit, service pension or disability pension
11 benefit before January 1, [1985] 1992.
12 Section 302. Amount of special ad hoc adjustment.
13 (a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsections (b) and
14 (c), a municipal retirement system shall pay a retired police
15 officer or firefighter a special ad hoc municipal police and
16 firefighter postretirement adjustment under section 301, as
17 follows:
18 (1) The sum of $25 a month, if on January 1, [1989]
19 1996, the retiree has been retired at least five years but
20 less than ten years.
21 (2) The sum of $50 a month, if on January 1, [1989]
22 1996, the retiree is totally disabled and has been retired
23 less than ten years.
24 (3) The sum of $75 a month, if on January 1, [1989]
25 1996, the retiree has been retired at least ten years but
26 less than 20 years.
27 (4) The sum of $150 a month, if on January 1, [1989]
28 1996, the retiree has been retired at least 20 years.
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30 Section 303. Payment of special ad hoc adjustment.
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1 The special ad hoc adjustment is effective on the date of the
2 first payment of the retiree's retirement annuity, retirement
3 benefit, service pension or disability pension benefit due after
4 December 31, [1988] 1995. The municipal retirement system shall
5 pay this as soon as practicable after that and shall include in
6 the first payment any omitted amount payable between the
7 effective date of the adjustment and the date of the first
8 payment.
9 Section 502. Reimbursement by Commonwealth.
10 (a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b),
11 beginning January 1, [1990] 1997, the Commonwealth shall
12 reimburse a municipality, from the special account established
13 under section 701, for the actual special ad hoc adjustment paid
14 during the previous calendar year.
15 (b) Limitation.--The Commonwealth shall not reimburse any
16 municipality if the information required under section 901
17 either was not certified to the Auditor General or was certified
18 after April 1 of the year the certification was due.
19 Section 901. Municipal retirement system certification of
20 adjustments paid.
21 (a) Certification.--Beginning January 1, [1989] 1996, the
22 chief administrative officer of a municipal retirement system
23 that pays a special ad hoc adjustment in that year shall certify
24 the total of all adjustments paid during that year to the
25 Auditor General not later than April 1 of the following year.
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27 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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