Capitolwire Articles and Information Pension issue appears dead for now, unless House, Senate reach agreement on compromise. The state Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday once again did not consider a bill that would set up a 401(k)-style retirement plan for most new state employees. The committee is scheduled to meet later today, but that bill …
The Election Committee of PSCOA has received the written report from the American Arbitration Association concerning the results of balloting for the Association offices and Executive Board positions and hereby issues and posts the following certification of election results: Roy Pinto – President Tim Walsh – Executive Vice President Robert Storm – Vice President …
Senate Finance Committee 6/19/13, 9:30 a.m., Room 8E-A, East Wing By Mike Howells The committee met to consider bills. HB 1172Christiana, Jim – (PN 1606) Amends the Local Tax Enabling Act to allow political subdivisions to levy a mercantile or business privilege tax in the first year following a merger at a rate necessary …
HARRISBURG (June 19) – Is a Senate committee’s approvalof a plan to put future state employees and all re-elected state officials and retained judges into a new pension plan symbolic, or 11 days from being law? I dunno. The plan, fashioned by Senate GOP leaders and Senate Finance Chairman Mike Brubaker, R-Lancaster, may be the only …
HARRISBURG – Police voted Wednesday to approve a contract that will freeze pay for the next two years and increase costs for health coverage to at least one percent of each officers’ salaries. It also allows officers to live outside the city, a change that won’t become official until it goes through the proper administrative …
Capitolwire: Senate panel approves plan to create 401(k)-style retirement plan for nearly all state employees. By Chris Comisac Deputy Bureau Chief Capitolwire HARRISBURG (June 19) – Just about every future hire in state government – including those elected or re-elected in the Legislature, row offices and elected or retained in the judiciary – would be …