PRINTER'S NO. 407
No. 390 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY CLARK, M. BAKER, BARD, BEBKO-JONES, BELARDI,
BELFANTI, BROWNE, CALTAGIRONE, L. I. COHEN, DeWEESE,
FAIRCHILD, FEESE, FICHTER, FREEMAN, GEORGE, GRUCELA, HARHAI,
HENNESSEY, HORSEY, HUTCHINSON, JOSEPHS, LAUGHLIN, LAWLESS,
LUCYK, LYNCH, McCALL, S. MILLER, PETRARCA, SANTONI, SCHRODER,
SCHULER, SCRIMENTI, SHANER, B. SMITH, STABACK, STERN,
T. STEVENSON, E. Z. TAYLOR, TIGUE, TRELLO, TULLI, WALKO,
WASHINGTON, C. WILLIAMS, WILT, WOJNAROSKI, YOUNGBLOOD AND
YUDICHAK, JANUARY 31, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, JANUARY 31, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 24 (Education) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for limitations on nonschool
3 service.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 8304(b) of Title 24 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 8304. Creditable nonschool service.
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10 (b) Limitations on nonschool service.--Creditable nonschool
11 service credit shall be limited to:
12 (1) Intervening military service.
13 (2) Military service other than intervening military
14 service and activated military service not exceeding five
15 years provided that a member with multiple service may not
1 purchase more than a total of five years of military service
2 in both the system and the State Employees' Retirement
3 System.
4 (3) Service in any public school or public educational
5 institution in any state other than this Commonwealth or in
6 any territory or area under the jurisdiction of the United
7 States. This paragraph includes service, prior to July 1,
8 1965, at a community college established under the act of
9 August 24, 1963 (P.L.1132, No.484), known as the Community
10 College Act of 1963.
11 (4) Service as an administrator, teacher, or instructor
12 in the field of public school education for any agency or
13 department of the government of the United States whether or
14 not such area was under the jurisdiction of the United
15 States.
16 (5) Previous service as an employee of a county board of
17 school directors which employment was terminated because of
18 the transfer of the administration of such service or of the
19 entire agency to a governmental entity.
20 (6) Previous service as a county employee as a nurse.
21 For every three years or major fraction thereof in previous
22 work experience, an individual may buy one year of creditable
23 service, not to exceed a total of five years. The purchase of
24 this service shall begin within three years of the employee's
25 eligibility to purchase this creditable service.
26 (7) (i) Service for the period of time spent on a
27 maternity leave of absence required by the employer,
28 which creditable service shall not exceed two years per
29 leave and shall be applicable only to a maternity leave
30 which was mandatory prior to May 17, 1975. The purchase
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1 of this service shall begin within one year of the
2 employee's eligibility to purchase the creditable service
3 under this subparagraph as originally enacted by the act
4 of August 5, 1991 (P.L.183, No.23), entitled "An act
5 amending Titles 24 (Education) and 71 (State Government)
6 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further
7 providing for the Public School Employees' Retirement
8 System and the State Employees' Retirement System; adding
9 and amending certain definitions; further providing for
10 membership in the systems, for creditable nonschool and
11 nonstate service and the purchase of credit, for
12 incentives for special early retirement, for
13 contributions to the retirement funds, for annuities and
14 the rights and duties of annuitants, for health insurance
15 premium assistance, for board membership and for the re-
16 amortization and management of the retirement funds."
17 (ii) Service for the period of time spent on a
18 maternity leave of absence required by the employer,
19 which creditable service shall not exceed two years per
20 leave and shall be applicable only to a maternity leave
21 that was mandatory and began after May 16, 1975, and
22 prior to November 1, 1978. The purchase of this service
23 shall begin within one year of the employee's eligibility
24 to purchase the creditable service under this
25 subparagraph.
26 (iii) Service for the period of time spent on a
27 maternity leave of absence required by the employer,
28 which creditable service shall not exceed two years per
29 leave and shall be applicable only to a maternity leave
30 that was mandatory and began after October 31, 1978, and
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1 prior to July 1, 1979. The purchase of this service shall
2 begin within one year of the employee's eligibility to
3 purchase the creditable service under this subparagraph.
4 (8) Service in the Cadet Nurse Corps with respect to any
5 period of training as a student or graduate nurse under a
6 plan approved under section 2 of the act of June 15, 1943
7 (Public Law 78-73, 57 Stat. 153), if the total period of
8 training under the plan was at least two years, the credit
9 for such service not to exceed three years.
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11 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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