PRINTER'S NO. 1106
No. 1022 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY BUNT, FARMER, KING, ALLEN AND PESCI,
MARCH 29, 1993
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, MARCH 29, 1993
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 24 (Education) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for creditable nonschool service.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Section 8304(b) and (c) of Title 24 of the
6 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
7 § 8304. Creditable nonschool service.
8 * * *
9 (b) Limitations on nonschool service.--Creditable nonschool
10 service credit shall be limited to:
11 (1) Intervening military service.
12 (2) Military service other than intervening military
13 service and activated military service not exceeding five
14 years provided that a member with multiple service may not
15 purchase more than a total of five years of military service
16 in both the system and the State Employees' Retirement
17 System.
1 (3) Service in any public school or public educational
2 institution in any state other than this Commonwealth or in
3 any territory or area under the jurisdiction of the United
4 States. This paragraph includes service, prior to July 1,
5 1965, at a community college established under the act of
6 August 24, 1963 (P.L.1132, No.484), known as the Community
7 College Act of 1963.
8 (4) Service as an administrator, teacher, or instructor
9 in the field of public school education for any agency or
10 department of the government of the United States whether or
11 not such area was under the jurisdiction of the United
12 States.
13 (5) Previous service as an employee of a county board of
14 school directors which employment was terminated because of
15 the transfer of the administration of such service or of the
16 entire agency to a governmental entity.
17 (6) Previous service as a county employee as a nurse.
18 For every three years or major fraction thereof in previous
19 work experience, an individual may buy one year of creditable
20 service, not to exceed a total of five years. The purchase of
21 this service shall begin within three years of the employee's
22 eligibility to purchase this creditable service.
23 (7) Service for the period of time spent on a maternity
24 leave of absence required by the employer, which creditable
25 service shall not exceed two years per leave and shall be
26 applicable only to a maternity leave which was mandatory
27 prior to May 17, 1975. The purchase of this service shall
28 begin within one year of the employee's eligibility to
29 purchase this creditable service.
30 (8) Service in the Cadet Nurse Corps with respect to any
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1 period of training as a student or graduate nurse under a
2 plan approved under section 2 of the act of June 15, 1943
3 (Public Law 78-73, 57 Stat. 153), if the total period of
4 training under the plan was at least two years, the credit
5 for such service not to exceed three years.
6 (9) Previous service as an administrator, teacher or
7 instructor in any public, American or international school,
8 or public, American or international educational institution
9 in any territory or area not under the jurisdiction of the
10 Federal Government, provided that the school or institution
11 was accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges
12 and Secondary Schools or any other United States regional
13 accrediting entity during the time of the employee's service.
14 (c) Limitations on years of credit.--Service listed in
15 subsection (b)(3) [and], (4) and (9) must have been for a period
16 of at least one school year and credit for such service shall be
17 limited to the lesser of 12 years or the number of years of
18 school service credited in the system. In no case shall the
19 total credit for nonschool service other than that listed in
20 subsection (b)(5) exceed the number of years of school service
21 credited in the system, plus, in the case of a multiple service
22 member, any additional years of State service credited in the
23 State Employees' Retirement System.
24 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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