SENATE DOCKET, NO. 345 FILED ON: 1/5/2009
SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1034
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Gale D. Candaras
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To the Honorable Senate and House of
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying bill:
An Act relative to creditable service for service rendered as a v
olunteer in the peace corps and americorps
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PETITION OF:
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Name:
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District/Address:
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Gale D. Candaras
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First Hampden and Hampshire
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Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr.
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12th Hampden
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Christine E. Canavan
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10th Plymouth
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Susan C. Tucker
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Second Essex and
Middlesex
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Timothy J. Toomey, Jr.
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26th Middlesex
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[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE SENATE, NO. S01472 OF .]
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine
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An Act relative to creditable
service for service rendered as a volunteer in the peace corps and americorps.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1. Chapter 32 of the General Law
s is amended in subsection (1) of section 4 by adding the following new subsection:—
(t) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, a member in service of the state employees’ or teachers’ retirement system or a retiremen
t system of a city, town, county, region or district as defined in section one who served as a volunteer in the Peace Corps, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA),
AmeriCorps
VISTA, Teacher Corps, the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Healt
h Service, or the Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who completes fifteen or more years of membership service shall receive full credit for the period of such volunteer service up to, but not exceeding three years. E
ligibility for said creditable service shall be conditioned upon payment, in one sum or in installments upon such terms as the state retirement board or the teacher’s retirement board or a retirement system of a city, town, county, region or district may p
rovide, into the annuity savings fund of the state employees, teachers retirement system or a retirement system of a city, town, county, region or district an amount equal to the contributions such member would have otherwise paid into the retirement syste
m for the period of volunteer service based
upon the annual salary the member received in the first year of membership service after said volunteer service; provided further that such creditable service shall not be allowed for any period of active service
for which said volunteer has received credit pursuant to paragraph (f) of subsection (1) of section 4 of chapter 32.
