Bill Text: PA HB1791 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: In employees' retirement system, defining "county detective" and further providing for county employee retirement allowances.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-07-26 - Referred to URBAN AFFAIRS [HB1791 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1791-Introduced.html

  

 

    

PRINTER'S NO.  2300

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE BILL

 

No.

1791

Session of

2011

  

  

INTRODUCED BY VULAKOVICH, D. COSTA, GEIST, HEFFLEY, HESS, KNOWLES, KORTZ, SWANGER AND TURZAI, JULY 26, 2011

  

  

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON URBAN AFFAIRS, JULY 26, 2011  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending the act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723, No.230), entitled,

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as amended, "An act relating to counties of the second class

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and second class A; amending, revising, consolidating and

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changing the laws relating thereto," in employees' retirement

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system, defining "county detective" and further providing for

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county employee retirement allowances.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 1701 of the act of July 28, 1953

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(P.L.723, No.230), known as the Second Class County Code, is

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amended by adding a definition to read:

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Section 1701.  Definitions.--The following words and phrases

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as used in this article shall be construed to have the following

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meaning:

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"County detective," a detective that is employed by a

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district attorney's office.

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Section 2.  Section 1710(b) of the act, amended June 18, 1998

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(P.L.693, No.89), is amended to read:

 


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Section 1710.  Employes Eligible for Retirement Allowances.--

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(b)  Every present or future county employe, other than a

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member of the police force or the fire department or a fire

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inspector [or a], sheriff [or], deputy sheriff or county

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detective, who has reached the age of sixty years or upwards and

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who has to his or her credit a period of service of twenty years

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or more, and every county employe who is a member of the police

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force or the fire department or is a fire inspector or a county

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detective, and who shall have been a county employe during a

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period of twenty or more years and has reached the age of fifty

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years or upwards shall, upon application to the board, be

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eligible for retirement from service, and shall thereafter

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receive, during life, except as hereinafter provided, a

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retirement allowance plus a service increment if any, in

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accordance with the provisions of section 1712. Every county

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officer or employe who is a sheriff, deputy sheriff, prison

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guard or probation officer who shall have been a county officer

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or employe during a period of twenty or more years and has

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reached the age of fifty-five years or upward, shall, upon

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application to the board, be eligible for retirement from

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service and shall thereafter receive, during life, except as

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hereafter provided, a retirement allowance in accordance with

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section 1712. The time spent in the employ of the county or

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county institution district need not necessarily have been

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continuous: Provided, That when any county employe has twenty or

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more years service, not necessarily continuous, and has not

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reached the age of sixty years or upwards, and shall be

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separated from the service of the county or county institution

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district by reason of no cause or act of his or her own, upon

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application to the board he or she shall thereafter receive,

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during life, except as hereinafter provided, a retirement

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allowance plus a service increment if any, in accordance with

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the provisions of section 1713. The aforesaid retirement

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allowance plus a service increment if any, shall be subject to a

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suspension thereof in accordance with the provisions of

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subsection (h) of this section 1710 and subsection (c) of

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section 1712.

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Section 3.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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