PRINTER'S NO. 449
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
464
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY REGAN, BARTOLOTTA, STEFANO, ROBINSON, COSTA,
ARGALL AND HUTCHINSON, MARCH 14, 2023
REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, MARCH 14, 2023
AN ACT
Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in municipal pensions, providing for
pension service credit for prior service with police
department.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 91 of Title 53 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subchapter to read:
SUBCHAPTER C
POLICE PENSION PLANS
Sec.
9121. Definitions.
9122. Pension service credit for prior service with police
department.
9123. Computation of amount due.
9124. Ineligibility.
9125. Applicability to Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement
System.
§ 9121. Definitions.
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The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter
shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
"City." The term does not include a city of the first class.
"Police department." As defined under section 2162 (relating
to definitions).
"Police officer." As defined under section 2162.
§ 9122. Pension service credit for prior service with police
department.
A city, borough, town, township or regional police department
shall amend its ordinance or resolution establishing a police
pension fund to provide full-time police officers who have
satisfied vesting requirements the option to purchase up to five
years of pension service credit for prior part-time or full-time
police service provided in a police department.
§ 9123. Computation of amount due.
The amount due for the purchase of credit for prior police
service shall be computed by:
(1) multiplying the normal cost rate for the police
pension plan a police officer is buying into, but not to
exceed 10%, by the police officer's average annual rate of
compensation over the first three years of service with the
police department; and
(2) multiplying the product from paragraph (1) by the
number of years and fractional part of a year of creditable
prior police service being purchased together with interest
at the rate of 4.75% compounded annually from the date of
initial entry into full-time service with the police
department to the date of payment.
§ 9124. Ineligibility.
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The following apply:
(1) A police officer shall not be eligible to purchase
service credit for prior police service for which the officer
otherwise receives or is entitled to receive pension service
credit from any other pension fund.
(2) A police officer shall not be eligible to purchase
service credit for prior police service that combined with
credited military service exceeds five years.
§ 9125. Applicability to Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement
System.
Nothing in this subchapter shall be interpreted to impact the
portability and transfer of service credits between system-
administered pension plans within the Pennsylvania Municipal
Retirement System.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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