An Act amending Titles 24 (Education) and 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in membership, contributions and benefits, further providing for creditable nonschool service; and, in membership, credited service, classes of service, and eligibility for benefits, further providing for creditable nonstate service.

HB 1605 would amend Pennsylvania's retirement laws for public employees by expanding what counts as "creditable service" toward benefits. Specifically, it would allow education employees to include non-school service (such as work in non-school educational programs) and state government employees to include non-state service (such as local government work) in their retirement calculations. This change would directly affect public workers in education and state government retirement systems who have held diverse employment roles outside traditional school or state government settings. The bill is currently pending in the State Government committee.