PRINTER'S NO. 1874
No. 292 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY REICHLEY, MAY 4, 2005
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
MAY 4, 2005
A RESOLUTION
1 Recognizing the Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees.
2 WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees
3 (PASR), officially begun in 1937, has 74 local chapters and a
4 membership of more than 40,000 retired employees of public
5 schools of Pennsylvania, consisting of former teachers,
6 administrators, counselors, nurses, aides, secretaries, bus
7 drivers, cafeteria workers, maintenance staff and anyone else
8 who receives a pension from the Pennsylvania Public School
9 Employees' Retirement System (PSERS); and
10 WHEREAS, PASR chapters conduct yearly community service
11 surveys of their members to document the hours of volunteer
12 service they have contributed to their community. A recent
13 survey showed that members Statewide contributed more than nine
14 million hours of volunteer service in the year; and
15 WHEREAS, PASR's legislative agenda for 2005 includes cost-of-
16 living adjustments (COLAs), health insurance, pension equity,
17 pop-up options, PSERS administrative reforms, retirement
1 funding, removal of restrictions on the number of days a retiree
2 may return to service during a school year and exemption of
3 retirees from continuing education requirements; therefore be it
4 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the
5 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania recognize and honor the
6 Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees for its service to
7 retired employees of public schools of Pennsylvania.
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