Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Chapter 85 - Administration and Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 8535.1 - Payments to school entities by Commonwealth commencing with the 2019-2020 school year


For each school year, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, each school entity shall be paid by the Commonwealth for contributions based upon school service of active members of the system and active participants of the plan after June 30, 2018, as follows:
(1) The Commonwealth shall pay each school entity for contributions made to the fund or the trust based upon school service of all active members or active participants, including members or participants on activated or USERRA military service leave, whose effective dates of employment with their school entities are after June 30, 1994, and who also had not previously been employed by any school entity within this Commonwealth, an amount equal to the amount certified by the board as necessary to provide, together with the members' and participants' contributions, reserves on account of prospective annuities, supplemental annuities and the premium assistance program as provided in this part in accordance with section 8328 (relating to actuarial cost method), multiplied by the market value/income aid ratio of the school entity. For no school year shall any school entity receive less than the amount that would result if the market value/income aid ratio as defined in section 2501(14.1) of the Public School Code was 0.50.
(2) The Commonwealth shall pay each school entity for contributions made to the fund or the trust based upon school service of all active members or active participants, including members or participants on activated military service leave, and active participants of the plan who are not described in paragraph (1) one-half of the amount certified by the board as necessary to provide, together with the members' and participants' contributions, reserves on account of prospective annuities, supplemental annuities and the premium assistance program as provided in this part in accordance with section 8328.
(3) School entities shall have up to five days after receipt of the Commonwealth's portion of the employer's liability to forward the payment to the fund or the trust. School entities are expected to make the full payment to the fund or the trust in accordance with section 8327 (relating to payments by employers) in the event the receipt of the Commonwealth's portion of the employer's liability is delayed because of delinquent salary reporting or other conduct by the school entities.
(4) Employers whose payments to the Public School Employees' Retirement Fund are delinquent shall be charged interest by the Public School Employees' Retirement Fund at the annual interest rate adopted by the board under section 8328 in effect in the fiscal year in which the payments are required to be paid.
(June 12, 2017, P.L.11, No.5, eff. imd.)

2017 Amendment. Act 5 added section 8535.1.

Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes

Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes

Title 24 - EDUCATION

Chapter 85 - Administration and Miscellaneous Provisions

Extra - Chapter Notes

Section 8501 - Public School Employees' Retirement Board

Section 8502 - Administrative duties of board

Section 8502.1 - Health insurance (Deleted by amendment)

Section 8502.2 - Health insurance

Section 8503 - Duties of board to advise and report to employers, members and participants

Section 8504 - Duties of board to report to State Employees' Retirement Board

Section 8505 - Duties of board regarding applications and elections of members and participants

Section 8505.1 - Installment payments of accumulated deductions

Section 8506 - Duties of employers

Section 8507 - Rights and duties of school employees, members and participants

Section 8508 - Rights and duties of annuitants

Section 8509 - Health insurance premium assistance program

Section 8510 - Stress test of system

Section 8521 - Management of fund and accounts

Section 8522 - Public School Employees' Retirement Fund

Section 8523 - Members' savings account

Section 8524 - State accumulation account

Section 8525 - Annuity reserve account

Section 8526 - Health insurance account

Section 8527 - Northern Ireland-related investments

Section 8531 - State guarantee regarding the system

Section 8532 - State supervision

Section 8533 - Taxation, attachment and assignment of funds

Section 8533.1 - Approval of domestic relations orders

Section 8533.2 - Irrevocable beneficiary

Section 8533.3 - Irrevocable survivor annuitant

Section 8533.4 - Amendment of approved domestic relations orders

Section 8533.5 - Irrevocable successor payee

Section 8534 - Fraud and adjustment of errors

Section 8535 - Payments to school entities by Commonwealth

Section 8535.1 - Payments to school entities by Commonwealth commencing with the 2019-2020 school year

Section 8536 - Independent Fiscal Office study

Section 8537 - Internal Revenue Code limitations

Section 8538 - Public Pension Management and Asset Investment Review Commission

Section 8541 - Definitions

Section 8542 - Establishment

Section 8543 - Funding

Section 8544 - Participation criteria

Section 8545 - Preference

Section 8546 - Requirements and limitations of firms

Section 8547 - Administration