HOUSE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 1029, 1113 PRINTER'S NO. 1368
No. 852 Session of 1987
INTRODUCED BY ARMSTRONG, ZEMPRELLI, MADIGAN, CORMAN, HESS,
WENGER, REGOLI, RHOADES, FISHER, REIBMAN, KELLEY, AFFLERBACH
AND LOEPER, MAY 27, 1987
AS REPORTED FOR COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, SEPTEMBER 29, 1987
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, providing an employer contribution
3 rate for members of an independent retirement system.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 5301(a)(12) of Title 71 of the
7 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, amended December 15, 1986
8 (P.L.1597, No.176), is amended to read:
9 § 5301. Mandatory and optional membership.
10 (a) Mandatory membership.--Membership in the system shall be
11 mandatory as of the effective date of employment for all State
12 employees except the following:
13 * * *
14 (12) School employees who have elected membership in an
15 independent retirement program approved by the employer,
16 provided that in no case, except [for the fiscal year 1986-
17 1987] as hereinafter provided, shall the employer contribute
1 on account of such elected membership at a rate greater than
2 the employer normal contribution rate as determined in
3 section 5508(b) (relating to actuarial cost method). For the
4 fiscal year 1986-1987 an employer may contribute on account
5 of such elected membership at a rate which is the greater of
6 7% or the employer normal contribution rate as determined in
7 section 5508(b) and for all years after that at a rate of
8 8.95%.
9 * * *
10 Section 2. The Public Employee Retirement Study Commission
11 shall study the rate established in 71 Pa.C.S. § 5301(a)(12)
12 four years after it was last set and shall recommend to the
13 Governor and the General Assembly not later than March 31 a rate
14 for the next five years. The rate established in 71 Pa.C.S. §
15 5301(a)(12) shall continue in effect until it is changed. The
16 recommendation of the Public Employee Retirement Study
17 Commission on the rate of employer contribution shall be
18 designed to produce parity of benefits CONTRIBUTIONS between the <--
19 alternate retirement program and the State Employes' Retirement
20 System program.
21 Section 3. This act shall take effect June 30, 1987, or if
22 enacted thereafter, immediately, and shall be retroactive to
23 June 30, 1987.
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