PRINTER'S NO. 2935
No. 2305 Session of 1992
INTRODUCED BY HERMAN, CAWLEY, McCALL, ANGSTADT, SCHULER,
MARKOSEK, KENNEY, FOX, PERZEL, E. Z. TAYLOR, RICHARDSON AND
KING, JANUARY 22, 1992
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 22, 1992
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of August 5, 1991 (P.L.182, No.23), entitled
2 "An act amending Titles 24 (Education) and 71 (State
3 Government) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes,
4 further providing for the Public School Employees' Retirement
5 System and the State Employees' Retirement System; adding and
6 amending certain definitions; further providing for
7 membership in the systems, for creditable nonschool and
8 nonstate service and the purchase of credit, for incentives
9 for special early retirement, for contributions to the
10 retirement funds, for annuities and the rights and duties of
11 annuitants, for health insurance premium assistance, for
12 board membership and for the re-amortization and management
13 of the retirement funds," further providing for retroactivity
14 in relation to creditable nonschool service in the Cadet
15 Nurse Corps.
16 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
17 hereby enacts as follows:
18 Section 1. Section 31 of the act of August 5, 1991 (P.L.182,
19 No.23), entitled "An act amending Titles 24 (Education) and 71
20 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes,
21 further providing for the Public School Employees' Retirement
22 System and the State Employees' Retirement System; adding and
23 amending certain definitions; further providing for membership
24 in the systems, for creditable nonschool and nonstate service
1 and the purchase of credit, for incentives for special early
2 retirement, for contributions to the retirement funds, for
3 annuities and the rights and duties of annuitants, for health
4 insurance premium assistance, for board membership and for the
5 re-amortization and management of the retirement funds," is
6 amended to read:
7 Section 31. The amendments of limitations on creditable
8 nonschool service in the Cadet Nurse Corps (24 Pa.C.S. §
9 8304(b)(8)) shall be retroactive to January 1, [1989] 1987, in
10 order to be consistent with the amendment of 71 Pa.C.S. §
11 5304(c)(6) by the act of October 21, 1988 (P.L.844, No.112),
12 entitled "An act amending Titles 24 (Education) and 71 (State
13 Government) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, to
14 include certain Federal service as nonstate service; further
15 providing for special early retirement; providing for further
16 supplemented annuities and for certain optional benefits; and
17 further providing for compensation of the Public School
18 Employees' Retirement Board," only to the extent that annuitants
19 who were active members of the system on or after January 1,
20 [1989] 1987, shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law,
21 be eligible to purchase creditable nonschool service for service
22 in the Cadet Nurse Corps, provided, however, that contributions
23 by eligible annuitants on account of Class T-C credit for
24 creditable nonschool service for service in the Cadet Nurse
25 Corps shall be determined by applying the member's basic
26 contribution rate plus the normal contribution rate as provided
27 in 71 Pa.C.S. § 8328 at the time of the member's entry into
28 school service subsequent to such creditable Cadet Nurse Corps
29 service and multiplying the product by the number of years and
30 fractional part of a year of creditable nonschool service being
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1 purchased together with statutory interest during all periods of
2 subsequent school or State service, and time since most recent
3 termination of school or State service to the date of purchase,
4 and further provided that the purchased nonschool credit shall
5 not be included in the calculation or payment of benefits for
6 any period of time prior to the date of purchase.
7 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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