PRINTER'S NO. 1432
No. 1241 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY FINEMAN, ECKENSBERGER, ZORD, GALLEN, M. E. MILLER,
WARGO, DAVIS AND COHEN, MAY 6, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, MAY 7, 1975
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, adding provisions to the State
3 Employee's Retirement Code relating to death benefits for
4 officers of the Pennsylvania State Police.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Sections 5704 and 5707 of Title 71, act of
8 November 25, 1970 (P.L.707, No.230), known as the Pennsylvania
9 Consolidated Statutes, added March 1, 1974 (No.31), are amended
10 by adding subsections to read:
11 § 5704. Disability annuities.
12 * * *
13 (g) If an officer of the Pennsylvania State Police has been
14 found to be eligible for a disability annuity and if the
15 disability is not service connected and if the disability has
16 been found to be total and permanent, to the extent that the
17 officer is unable to engage in any gainful occupation, such
18 officer shall receive a supplement equal to seventy per cent
19 (70%) of his final average salary less the sum of the annuity as
1 determined under subsection (a) of this section and any payments
2 paid or payable on account of such disability under the Federal
3 Social Security Act. Such supplement shall continue as long as
4 he is determined to be totally and permanently disabled on
5 account of his nonservice connected disability.
6 § 5707. Death benefit.
7 * * *
8 (f) In the event of the death of an active member who is an
9 officer of the Pennsylvania State Police, and if his death is or
10 is not service connected, there shall be payable; to his widow
11 so long as she remains his widow, and if and when such widow
12 dies or remarries, then to his children under eighteen years of
13 age, and if and when there are no children under eighteen years
14 of age, then to the parent or parents of the deceased officer of
15 the Pennsylvania State Police if they are dependent; an annuity
16 equal to fifty per cent (50%) of his final average salary. In
17 the event payment is made under this subsection, there shall be
18 no other death benefits payable from the fund to which such
19 deceased officer of the Pennsylvania State Police may have
20 otherwise been entitled.
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