PRINTER'S NO. 719
No. 681 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY TRAVAGLIO, M. COHEN, BELARDI, MARKOSEK, PESCI,
PRESTON, TRELLO, SAINATO, McCALL AND HARHAI, MARCH 2, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 2, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, providing for the purchase of credit
3 for either nonintervening or intervening military service by
4 surviving spouses.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Title 71 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
9 § 5505.2. Surviving spouse purchase of certain military service
10 time.
11 If, prior to death, an active officer of the Pennsylvania
12 State Police fails to purchase either nonintervening military
13 service under section 5505(b) (relating to contributions for the
14 purchase of credit for creditable nonstate service) or
15 intervening military service under section 5505(c), then the
16 surviving spouse shall have the right and may within 90 days of
17 the death of the officer member or within 90 days after the
18 effective date of this section exercise the right to purchase
19 such service in accordance with the terms specified in section
1 5505(b) or (c).
2 Section 2. This act shall be retroactive to July 1, 1991.
3 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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