Bill Text: PA HB949 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: In State Employees Retirement System, further providing for mandatory and optional membership.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-7)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-17 - Referred to FINANCE [HB949 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB949-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1087
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 949 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY MANN, BELFANTI, BRENNAN, CONKLIN, D. COSTA, DENLINGER, FRANKEL, GEIST, GINGRICH, HANNA, HARHAI, JOSEPHS, KORTZ, KULA, REED, REICHLEY, SCAVELLO AND SIPTROTH, MARCH 17, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, MARCH 17, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in State Employees Retirement System,
further providing for mandatory and optional membership.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 5301(c) of Title 71 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended and the section is amended by
adding a subsection to read:
§ 5301. Mandatory and optional membership.
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(c) Prohibited membership.--[The] Except as provided in
subsection (g), the State employees listed in subsection (a)
(12), (13), (14) and (15) shall not have the right to elect
membership in the system.
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(g) Transfer of membership.--All State employees referred to
in subsection (a)(12) shall have the right to terminate
membership in an independent retirement program and elect
membership in Class AA of the system within 180 days of the
effective date of this subsection. State employees referred to
in subsection (a)(12), either who are employed in a tenure track
position but who have not received tenure on the effective date
of this subsection or who become employed in a tenure track
position after the effective date of this subsection, shall have
the right to terminate membership in an independent retirement
program and elect membership in Class AA of the system within
180 days of receiving tenure. Once such election is exercised,
membership shall become effective on the earlier of the first
day of July or first day of February next following the filing
of the election with the board and shall continue until the
termination of State service.
Section 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2010.
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