Pennsylvania Senate backs hybrid pension plan
A Senate panel voted Sunday night to change pension benefits for all new school employees and most state workers after 2018. The state Senate voted today on a bill to… Read More
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Pa. legislators move to overhaul public employee pensions
The Republican-controlled legislature is racing to send Gov. Wolf a long-sought bill by week’s end that would overhaul retirement benefits in Pennsylvania’s two debt-riddled public pension plans. The Senate approved… Read More
New pension plan being pushed by Senate appears to do less than their last pension bill
But the numbers that appear to matter are the votes legislative leaders expect it will get in the General Assembly. HARRISBURG (June 4) – During a rare Sunday evening session… Read More
Pennsylvania’s public sector unions have called a strategic retreat on pension bill
One of the oddities of this week’s public employee pensions debate is how so many of the state’s major public sector unions are sitting it out. They have, after all, reliably opposed… Read More
Editorial: Bill retires very concept of reform
The Democratic Wolf administration and Republican legislative leaders have overcome deep partisan division with an agreement to do … well, not much. Senators conducted a rare Sunday session to advance… Read More
Bill to Rein In Pennsylvania Pension Benefits on Fast Track
Most rookie teachers and newly minted Pennsylvania government employees would see a smaller retirement benefit in the coming decades through the state’s two big debt-plagued pension systems, under legislation that… Read More
Senate passes pension reform bill described as ‘the medicine that will move us forward
The state Senate on Monday passed a pension reform bill that would give most future state and school employees three choices for retirement savings, none of them would be exclusively the guaranteed… Read More
Schools oppose bill limiting assessment challenges
School leaders are speaking out against a bill that could limit a school district’s ability to challenge a property assessment and, they say, could cost districts millions in revenue. Allentown… Read More
Lawmakers push legislation to end ‘lunch shaming’ in schools
House Bill 1403 and its companion legislation, Senate Bill 709, would end practices that embarrass a child when their family is behind on lunch payments. ABC Channel 27, June 5,… Read More
Pension reform fast-tracking at Capitol
The state Senate voted 40-9 Monday to reform Pennsylvania’s public pension systems by creating hybrid pension plans for new government workers. Sharon Herald, June 6, 2017 Full story