PRINTER'S NO. 2292
No. 1861 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY L. I. COHEN, BAKER, BARD, BEBKO-JONES, BELARDI,
BELFANTI, CURRY, DALEY, DeWEESE, FICHTER, FRANKEL, FREEMAN,
GRUCELA, HARHAI, HENNESSEY, KENNEY, McCALL, R. MILLER,
S. MILLER, RUBLEY, SANTONI, SAYLOR, SCRIMENTI, SHANER,
B. SMITH, STABACK, TANGRETTI, E. Z. TAYLOR, WILLIAMS, WILT,
WOJNAROSKI AND YOUNGBLOOD, SEPTEMBER 27, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, SEPTEMBER 27, 1999
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
15 purchase more than a total of five years of military service
16 in both the system and the State Employees' Retirement
1 System.
2 (3) Service in any public school or public educational
3 institution in any state other than this Commonwealth or in
4 any territory or area under the jurisdiction of the United
5 States. This paragraph includes service, prior to July 1,
6 1965, at a community college established under the act of
7 August 24, 1963 (P.L.1132, No.484), known as the Community
8 College Act of 1963.
9 (4) Service as an administrator, teacher, or instructor
10 in the field of public school education for any agency or
11 department of the government of the United States whether or
12 not such area was under the jurisdiction of the United
13 States.
14 (5) Previous service as an employee of a county board of
15 school directors which employment was terminated because of
16 the transfer of the administration of such service or of the
17 entire agency to a governmental entity.
18 (6) Previous service as a county employee as a nurse.
19 For every three years or major fraction thereof in previous
20 work experience, an individual may buy one year of creditable
21 service, not to exceed a total of five years. The purchase of
22 this service shall begin within three years of the employee's
23 eligibility to purchase this creditable service.
24 (7) (i) Service for the period of time spent on a
25 maternity leave of absence required by the employer,
26 which creditable service shall not exceed two years per
27 leave and shall be applicable only to a maternity leave
28 which was mandatory prior to May 17, 1975. [The purchase
29 of this service shall begin within one year of the
30 employee's eligibility to purchase the creditable service
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1 under this subparagraph as originally enacted by the act
2 of August 5, 1991 (P.L.183, No.23), entitled "An act
3 amending Titles 24 (Education) and 71 (State Government)
4 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further
5 providing for the Public School Employees' Retirement
6 System and the State Employees' Retirement System; adding
7 and amending certain definitions; further providing for
8 membership in the systems, for creditable nonschool and
9 nonstate service and the purchase of credit, for
10 incentives for special early retirement, for
11 contributions to the retirement funds, for annuities and
12 the rights and duties of annuitants, for health insurance
13 premium assistance, for board membership and for the re-
14 amortization and management of the retirement funds."]
15 The purchase of this service shall be made on or before
16 June 30, 2000.
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 (8) Service in the Cadet Nurse Corps with respect to any
27 period of training as a student or graduate nurse under a
28 plan approved under section 2 of the act of June 15, 1943
29 (Public Law 78-73, 57 Stat. 153), if the total period of
30 training under the plan was at least two years, the credit
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1 for such service not to exceed three years.
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3 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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