PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1016 PRINTER'S NO. 2956
No. 908 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY FAIRCHILD, OLASZ, GEORGE, MILLER, ALLEN, STERN,
LYNCH, RUBLEY, BAKER, YOUNGBLOOD, SANTONI, TRAVAGLIO, NAILOR,
SCRIMENTI, SCHULER, COWELL, HUTCHINSON, B. SMITH, STABACK,
SATHER, BELARDI, SAYLOR, BUNT, STEELMAN, TIGUE, L. I. COHEN,
ROONEY, SAINATO, SURRA, PLATTS, PETRARCA, BOSCOLA, CORNELL,
TRELLO, GEIST, ITKIN, SEYFERT, VEON, E. Z. TAYLOR, CURRY,
BROWNE, MICOZZIE, DEMPSEY, SHANER, HENNESSEY, LAUGHLIN,
COLAFELLA, RAMOS, BENNINGHOFF AND A. H. WILLIAMS,
MARCH 13, 1997
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
FEBRUARY 10, 1998
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 24 (Education) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for creditable nonschool service.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Section 8304(b) of Title 24 of the Pennsylvania
6 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
7 § 8304. Creditable nonschool service.
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9 (b) Limitations on nonschool service.--Creditable nonschool
10 service credit shall be limited to:
11 (1) Intervening military service.
12 (2) Military service other than intervening military
13 service and activated military service not exceeding five
14 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) Service for the period of time spent on a maternity <--
27 leave of absence required by the employer, which creditable
28 service shall not exceed two years per leave and shall be
29 applicable only to a maternity leave which was mandatory
30 prior to May 17, 1975. [The purchase of this service shall
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1 begin within one year of the employee's eligibility to
2 purchase this creditable service.]
3 (7) (I) SERVICE FOR THE PERIOD OF TIME SPENT ON A <--
4 MATERNITY LEAVE OF ABSENCE REQUIRED BY THE EMPLOYER,
5 WHICH CREDITABLE SERVICE SHALL NOT EXCEED TWO YEARS PER
6 LEAVE AND SHALL BE APPLICABLE ONLY TO A MATERNITY LEAVE
7 WHICH WAS MANDATORY PRIOR TO MAY 17, 1975. [THE PURCHASE
8 OF THIS SERVICE SHALL BEGIN WITHIN ONE YEAR OF THE
9 EMPLOYEE'S ELIGIBILITY TO PURCHASE THIS CREDITABLE
10 SERVICE.]
11 (II) SERVICE FOR THE PERIOD OF TIME SPENT ON A
12 MATERNITY LEAVE OF ABSENCE REQUIRED BY THE EMPLOYER,
13 WHICH CREDITABLE SERVICE SHALL NOT EXCEED TWO YEARS PER
14 LEAVE AND SHALL BE APPLICABLE ONLY TO A MATERNITY LEAVE
15 THAT WAS MANDATORY AND BEGAN AFTER MAY 16, 1975, AND
16 PRIOR TO NOVEMBER 1, 1978. THE PURCHASE OF THIS SERVICE
17 SHALL BEGIN WITHIN ONE YEAR OF THE EMPLOYEE'S ELIGIBILITY
18 TO PURCHASE THE CREDITABLE SERVICE UNDER THIS
19 SUBPARAGRAPH.
20 (8) Service in the Cadet Nurse Corps with respect to any
21 period of training as a student or graduate nurse under a
22 plan approved under section 2 of the act of June 15, 1943
23 (Public Law 78-73, 57 Stat. 153), if the total period of
24 training under the plan was at least two years, the credit
25 for such service not to exceed three years.
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27 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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