PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1753 PRINTER'S NO. 2450
No. 1500 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY STAIRS, COWELL, HERMAN, DALEY, TULLI, FLEAGLE,
HUTCHINSON, SCHULER, McCALL, ITKIN, ALLEN, SHANER, TRELLO,
HENNESSEY, BAKER, RUDY, MUNDY, MILLER, BATTISTO, PISTELLA AND
SEMMEL, APRIL 27, 1995
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, SEPTEMBER 19, 1995
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. Sections 8304(b) and 8324(e) of Title 24 of the
6 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
7 § 8304. Creditable nonschool service.
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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
1 System.
2 (3) Service in any public school or public educational
3 institution in any state other than this Commonwealth or in
4 any territory or area under the jurisdiction of the United
5 States. This paragraph includes service, prior to July 1,
6 1965, at a community college established under the act of
7 August 24, 1963 (P.L.1132, No.484), known as the Community
8 College Act of 1963.
9 (4) Service as an administrator, teacher, or instructor
10 in the field of public school education for any agency or
11 department of the government of the United States whether or
12 not such area was under the jurisdiction of the United
13 States.
14 (5) Previous service as an employee of a county board of
15 school directors which employment was terminated because of
16 the transfer of the administration of such service or of the
17 entire agency to a governmental entity.
18 (6) Previous service as a county employee as a nurse.
19 For every three years or major fraction thereof in previous
20 work experience, an individual may buy one year of creditable
21 service, not to exceed a total of five years. The purchase of
22 this service shall begin within three years of the employee's
23 eligibility to purchase this creditable service.
24 (7) Service for the period of time spent on a maternity
25 leave of absence required by the employer, which creditable
26 service shall not exceed two years per leave and shall be
27 applicable only to a maternity leave which was mandatory
28 prior to May 17, 1975. The purchase of this service shall
29 begin within one year of the employee's eligibility to
30 purchase this creditable service.
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1 (8) Service in the Cadet Nurse Corps with respect to any
2 period of training as a student or graduate nurse under a
3 plan approved under section 2 of the act of June 15, 1943
4 (Public Law 78-73, 57 Stat. 153), if the total period of
5 training under the plan was at least two years, the credit
6 for such service not to exceed three years.
7 (9) Previous work experience of the type required for <--
8 permanent certification as a vocational teacher. USED BY THE <--
9 MEMBER TO OBTAIN CERTIFICATION AS A VOCATIONAL TEACHER UNDER
10 A NONBACCALAUREATE PROGRAM. For every two years or major <--
11 fraction thereof OF THE PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE, an <--
12 individual can buy one year of creditable service, not to
13 exceed a total of three years. Previous A FRACTION OF A YEAR <--
14 OF THE PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE THAT IS EQUAL TO OR GREATER
15 THAN ONE-HALF SHALL BE CONSIDERED ONE YEAR FOR PURPOSES OF
16 THIS PARAGRAPH. THE PREVIOUS work experience shall not
17 include time served in an apprenticeship. The purchase of
18 this service shall begin within three years of the employee's
19 eligibility to purchase this creditable service.
20 * * *
21 § 8324. Contributions for purchase of credit for creditable
22 nonschool service.
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24 (e) Creditable work experience.--
25 (1) Contributions on account of T-C credit for
26 creditable work experience pursuant to section 8304(b)(6)
27 shall be the present value of the full actuarial cost of the
28 increase in the projected superannuation annuity caused by
29 the additional service credited on account of the purchase of
30 creditable work experience. [The amount paid for the purchase
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1 of credit for creditable work experience shall not be payable
2 as a lump sum under section 8345(a)(4)(iii) (relating to
3 member's options).] Any individual eligible to receive an
4 annuity, excluding an annuity received under the Federal
5 Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. § 301 et seq.), in another
6 pension system, other than a military pension system, shall
7 not be eligible to purchase this service.
8 (2) Contributions on account of T-C credit for
9 creditable work experience pursuant to section 8304(b)(9)
10 shall be the increase in the present value at the time of
11 purchase attributable to the additional service credited on
12 account of the purchase of such creditable work experience,
13 calculated on the basis of the average annual compensation
14 received during the first three years of credited school
15 service subsequent to such creditable work experience.
16 (3) The amount paid for the purchase of service under
17 this subsection shall not be payable as a lump sum under
18 section 8345(a)(4)(iii) (relating to member's options).
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20 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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