PRINTER'S NO. 2640
No. 2111 Session of 1991
INTRODUCED BY KENNEY, TRELLO, TIGUE, J. TAYLOR, PESCI, STABACK,
BELFANTI, McCALL, KASUNIC, MELIO, CIVERA, MAYERNIK,
M. N. WRIGHT, JOHNSON, LUCYK, WOGAN, E. Z. TAYLOR, HALUSKA
AND FARGO, NOVEMBER 12, 1991
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, NOVEMBER 12, 1991
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for nonintervening
3 military service.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 5505(b) of Title 71 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 5505. Contributions for the purchase of credit for creditable
9 nonstate service.
10 * * *
11 (b) Nonintervening military service.--
12 (1) The amount due for the purchase of credit for
13 military service other than intervening military service
14 shall be determined by applying the member's basic
15 contribution rate, the additional contribution rate plus the
16 Commonwealth normal contribution rate for active members at
17 the time of entry, subsequent to such military service, of
1 the member into State service to his average annual rate of
2 compensation over the first three years of such subsequent
3 State service and multiplying the result by the number of
4 years and fractional part of a year of creditable
5 nonintervening military service being purchased together with
6 statutory interest during all periods of subsequent State and
7 school service to date of purchase. Upon application for
8 credit for such service, payment shall be made in a lump sum
9 within 30 days or in the case of an active member it may be
10 amortized with statutory interest through salary deductions
11 in amounts agreed upon by the member and the board.
12 Application may be filed for all such military service credit
13 upon completion of three years of subsequent State service
14 and shall be credited as Class A service.
15 (2) Applicants may purchase credit as follows:
16 (i) one purchase of the total amount of creditable
17 nonintervening military service; or
18 (ii) one purchase per 12-month period of a portion
19 of creditable nonintervening military service.
20 The amount of each purchase shall be not less than one year
21 of creditable nonintervening military service.
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23 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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