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.