PRINTER'S NO. 714
No. 648 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY TANGRETTI, THOMAS, PESCI, HALUSKA, MIHALICH,
NAILOR, MARKOSEK, LAUGHLIN, READSHAW, TRELLO, MAITLAND,
STEELMAN, TRICH, PETRONE AND YOUNGBLOOD, FEBRUARY 7, 1995
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 7, 1995
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, defining "county employee"; and
3 further providing for creditable nonstate service in the
4 State Employees' Retirement Fund.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 5102 of Title 71 of the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a definition to read:
9 § 5102. Definitions.
10 The following words and phrases as used in this part, unless
11 a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall
12 have the following meanings:
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14 "County employee." Any person holding a county office or
15 position under any county in this Commonwealth, except as an
16 independent contractor or any person compensated on a fee basis.
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18 Section 2. Section 5304(c) of Title 71 is amended to read:
1 § 5304. Creditable nonstate service.
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3 (c) Limitations on nonstate service.--Creditable nonstate
4 service credit shall be limited to:
5 (1) intervening military service;
6 (2) military service other than intervening military
7 service and military service purchasable under section
8 5302(d) (relating to credited State service) not exceeding
9 five years, provided that a member with multiple service may
10 not purchase more than a total of five years of military
11 service in both the system and the Public School Employees'
12 Retirement System;
13 (3) in the case of an academic administrator, teacher or
14 instructor employed in the Department of Education, the State
15 System of Higher Education, any State-owned educational
16 institution or The Pennsylvania State University, provided
17 that the total amount of service creditable under this
18 paragraph shall not exceed the lesser of ten years or the
19 number of years of active membership in the system as an
20 academic administrator, teacher or instructor in the
21 Department of Education, State System of Higher Education,
22 any State-owned educational institution or The Pennsylvania
23 State University:
24 (i) nonstudent service as an academic administrator,
25 teacher or instructor in any public school or public
26 educational institution in any state other than this
27 Commonwealth; or
28 (ii) nonstudent service as an academic
29 administrator, teacher or instructor in the field of
30 education for any agency or department of the Federal
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1 Government, whether or not such area was under the
2 jurisdiction of the United States;
3 (4) previous service with a governmental agency other
4 than the Commonwealth which employment with said agency was
5 terminated because of the transfer by statute of the
6 administration of such service or of the entire agency to the
7 Commonwealth;
8 (5) service as a temporary Federal employee assigned to
9 an air quality control complement for the Pennsylvania
10 Department of Environmental Resources at any time during the
11 period of 1970 through 1975. This service time may be
12 purchased only if the member makes an election to purchase
13 within one year of the effective date of this paragraph, and
14 the member shall pay an amount which is equal to the full
15 actuarial cost of the increased benefit obtained by virtue of
16 the purchase as provided in section 5505(f);
17 (6) service in the Cadet Nurse Corps with respect to any
18 period of training as a student or graduate nurse under a
19 plan approved under section 2 of the act of June 15, 1943
20 (Public Law 78-73, 57 Stat. 153), if the total period of
21 training under such plan was at least two years, the credit
22 for such service not to exceed three years;
23 (7) service prior to July 1, 1971, at a community
24 college established under the act of August 24, 1963
25 (P.L.1132, No.484), known as the Community College Act of
26 1963; [or]
27 (8) service as a justice of the peace prior to January
28 1970[.]; or
29 (9) previous service as a county employee, the credit
30 for such service not to exceed ten years.
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2 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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