PRINTER'S NO. 2594
No. 1887 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY READSHAW, BRENNAN, GEORGE, HARHAI, KORTZ, PETRONE, THOMAS, WALKO AND WOJNAROSKI, OCTOBER 4, 2007
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, OCTOBER 4, 2007
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of May 25, 1933 (P.L.1050, No.242), entitled
2 "An act creating and establishing a fund for the care,
3 maintenance, and relief of aged, retired and disabled
4 employes of the bureau of fire in cities of the second class;
5 creating a board for the management thereof; providing the
6 mode and manner of payment to beneficiaries, and for the care
7 and disposition of its funds; and providing for the transfer
8 and payment of all moneys and securities in existing funds in
9 similar boards superseded by the fund and board herein
10 created," further providing for membership in the fund; and
11 providing for limited vested benefits.
12 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
13 hereby enacts as follows:
14 Section 1. The title and section 8 of the act of May 25,
15 1933 (P.L.1050, No.242), referred to as the Second Class City
16 Firemen Relief Law, are amended to read:
17 AN ACT
18 Creating and establishing a fund for the care, maintenance, and
19 relief of aged, retired and disabled employes of the bureau
20 of fire and of the bureau of emergency medical services in
21 cities of the second class; creating a board for the
22 management thereof; providing the mode and manner of payment
1 to beneficiaries, and for the care and disposition of its 2 funds; and providing for the transfer and payment of all 3 moneys and securities in existing funds in similar boards 4 superseded by the fund and board herein created." 5 Section 8. Those eligible to membership in the fund shall 6 be: 7 (1) All uniformed employes of the bureau of fire, including 8 the commanding officer and the chief of the bureau. 9 (2) All substitute uniformed employes of the bureau of fire. 10 (3) All persons who are at present members of the existing 11 fund in such city. Employes of the bureaus of electricity and 12 building inspection in such city who have entered such service 13 since the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and 14 eighteen, shall not be eligible to be members of such fund. 15 (4) All employes of the bureau of emergency medical 16 services. 17 Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read: 18 Section 11.2. (a) Members of the fund who become eligible 19 under section 8(4) of this act may become eligible for a limited 20 vested benefit once the Pittsburgh City Council passes an 21 ordinance authorizing this type of benefit. The ordinance may 22 provide for a limited vested benefit if such would conform to 23 section 305 of the act of December 18, 1984 (P.L.1005, No.205), 24 known as the "Municipal Pension Plan Funding Standard and 25 Recovery Act." Under the provisions of the benefit, should a 26 member of the firemen's pension fund, before completing the 27 minimum period of continuous service requirements but after 28 having completed twelve years of full-time service, the member 29 shall be entitled to vest his or her retirement benefits subject 30 to the following conditions: 20070H1887B2594 - 2 -
1 (1) the member must file with the management board of the 2 firemen's pension fund a written notice of his or her intention 3 to vest; 4 (2) the member must include in the notice, the date the 5 member intends to terminate his or her service as a full-time 6 employe of the bureau of emergency medical services; 7 (3) the termination date shall be at least thirty days later 8 than the date of notice to vest; 9 (4) the member must be in good standing with the bureau of 10 emergency medical services on the date of notice to vest; and 11 (5) the board shall indicate on the notice to vest the rate 12 of the monthly pay of the member as of the date of said notice 13 to vest or the highest average annual salary which the member 14 received during any five years of service preceding said date, 15 whichever is the higher. 16 (b) Upon reaching the date which would have been the 17 member's retirement date had the member continued his or her 18 full-time employment with the bureau of emergency medical 19 services, the member shall notify the board, in writing, that 20 the member desires to collect his or her pension. The amount of 21 retirement benefits the member is entitled to receive under this 22 section shall be computed as follows: 23 (1) the initial determination of the member's base 24 retirement benefits shall be computed on the salary indicated on 25 the notice to vest; and 26 (2) the portion of the base retirement benefits due the 27 member shall be determined by applying to the base amount the 28 percentage that his or her years of service actually rendered 29 bears to the years of service which would have been rendered had 30 the member continued to be employed by the bureau of emergency 20070H1887B2594 - 3 -
1 medical services until his or her minimum retirement date.
2 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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