PRINTER'S NO. 4011

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 2877 Session of 1996


        INTRODUCED BY FAIRCHILD, E. Z. TAYLOR, YOUNGBLOOD, REBER,
           HALUSKA, SAYLOR, SHANER, BAKER, TIGUE, CLARK, SCHULER,
           MARKOSEK, STURLA, GEIST, PETRARCA, PHILLIPS, TRELLO, NAILOR,
           BARD, STRITTMATTER, SCRIMENTI, HANNA, MICHLOVIC, KENNEY,
           McCALL, BOSCOLA, ITKIN, GAMBLE, GODSHALL, BELFANTI, ROBERTS,
           LYNCH, MILLER, TRICH, STEELMAN, SATHER, B. SMITH, WILLIAMS,
           SAINATO AND MERRY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1996

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, SEPTEMBER 25, 1996

                                     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) of Title 24 of the Pennsylvania
     6  Consolidated Statutes is 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


     1     in both the system and the State Employees' Retirement
     2     System.
     3         (3)  Service in any public school or public educational
     4     institution in any state other than this Commonwealth or in
     5     any territory or area under the jurisdiction of the United
     6     States. This paragraph includes service, prior to July 1,
     7     1965, at a community college established under the act of
     8     August 24, 1963 (P.L.1132, No.484), known as the Community
     9     College Act of 1963.
    10         (4)  Service as an administrator, teacher, or instructor
    11     in the field of public school education for any agency or
    12     department of the government of the United States whether or
    13     not such area was under the jurisdiction of the United
    14     States.
    15         (5)  Previous service as an employee of a county board of
    16     school directors which employment was terminated because of
    17     the transfer of the administration of such service or of the
    18     entire agency to a governmental entity.
    19         (6)  Previous service as a county employee as a nurse.
    20     For every three years or major fraction thereof in previous
    21     work experience, an individual may buy one year of creditable
    22     service, not to exceed a total of five years. The purchase of
    23     this service shall begin within three years of the employee's
    24     eligibility to purchase this creditable service.
    25         (7)  Service for the period of time spent on a maternity
    26     leave of absence required by the employer, which creditable
    27     service shall not exceed two years per leave and shall be
    28     applicable only to a maternity leave which was mandatory
    29     prior to May 17, 1975. [The purchase of this service shall
    30     begin within one year of the employee's eligibility to
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     1     purchase this creditable service.]
     2         (8)  Service in the Cadet Nurse Corps with respect to any
     3     period of training as a student or graduate nurse under a
     4     plan approved under section 2 of the act of June 15, 1943
     5     (Public Law 78-73, 57 Stat. 153), if the total period of
     6     training under the plan was at least two years, the credit
     7     for such service not to exceed three years.
     8     * * *
     9     Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.














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