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PRINTER'S NO. 1368
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
979
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY REGAN, SCARNATI, COSTA, RESCHENTHALER, BLAKE,
RAFFERTY, BREWSTER, SCAVELLO, YUDICHAK, McGARRIGLE AND
SCHWANK, DECEMBER 7, 2017
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 7, 2017
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.
§ 9121. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter
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shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Police department." This term shall have the same meaning
as provided under section 2162 (relating to definitions).
"Police officer." This term shall have the same meaning as
provided under section 2162.
§ 9122. Pension service credit for prior service with police
department.
A county, 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 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 average normal cost rate for
borough, town, township and regional police pension plans as
certified by the Auditor General but not to exceed 10%, by
the member'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.
No police officer shall be eligible to purchase service
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credit for prior police service for which the officer otherwise
receives or is entitled to receive pension service credit from
any other pension fund.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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