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        PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 2001, 2123               PRINTER'S NO. 2193

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


SENATE BILL

No. 1285 Session of 2006


        INTRODUCED BY WOZNIAK, COSTA, RAFFERTY, MUSTO, LOGAN, CORMAN,
           FONTANA, STOUT, TARTAGLIONE, MELLOW, GORDNER, O'PAKE,
           RHOADES, REGOLA, ROBBINS AND DINNIMAN, JULY 13, 2006

        AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, OCTOBER 18, 2006

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 1 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania
     2     Consolidated Statutes, further providing for credited State
     3     service.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 5302(b)(2) of Title 71 of the
     7  Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
     8  § 5302.  Credited State service.
     9     * * *
    10     (b)  Creditable leaves of absence.--
    11         * * *
    12         (2)  An active member on paid leave granted by an
    13     employer for purposes of serving as an elected full-time
    14     officer for a Statewide employee organization which is a
    15     collective bargaining representative under the act of June
    16     24, 1968 (P.L.237, No.111), referred to as the Policemen and
    17     Firemen Collective Bargaining Act, or the act of July 23,
    18     1970 (P.L.563, No.195), known as the Public Employe Relations

     1     Act, and not more than UP TO 14 full-time business agents      <--
     2     appointed by an employee organization that represents
     3     correction officers employed at State correctional
     4     institutions: Provided, That for elected full-time officers
     5     such leave shall not be for more than three consecutive terms
     6     of the same office and for the UP TO 14 full-time business     <--
     7     agents appointed by an employee organization that represents
     8     correction officers employed at State correctional
     9     institutions no more than three consecutive terms of the same
    10     office; that the employer shall fully compensate the member,
    11     including, but not limited to, salary, wages, pension and
    12     retirement contributions and benefits, other benefits and
    13     seniority, as if he were in full-time active service; and
    14     that the Statewide employee organization shall fully
    15     reimburse the employer for all expenses and costs of such
    16     paid leave, including, but not limited to, contributions and
    17     payment in accordance with sections 5501, 5505.1 and 5507, if
    18     the employee organization either directly pays, or reimburses
    19     the Commonwealth or other employer for, contributions made in
    20     accordance with section 5507.
    21     * * *
    22     Section 2.  The amendment of 71 Pa.C.S. § 5302(b)(2) ,         <--
    23  INSOFAR AS IT RELATES TO BUSINESS AGENTS APPOINTED BY AN
    24  EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATION REPRESENTING CORRECTION OFFICERS AT STATE
    25  CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS, shall apply only to leaves of absence
    26  approved after December 31, 2006, for active members who are
    27  appointed as the business agents identified in section
    28  5302(b)(2).
    29     Section 3.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2007.

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