SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1591 FILED ON: 1/14/2009
SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1056
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
James B. Eldridge
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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 Authorizing Certain Public Employees Creditable Retiremen
t Service.
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PETITION OF:
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Name:
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District/Address:
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James B. Eldridge
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Middlesex and Worcester
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Frank I. Smizik
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15th Norfolk
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Ellen Story
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3rd Hampshire
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine
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An Act Authorizing Certain Public Employees Creditable Retirement Service.
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.
Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, Section 4, Chapter 32 of the General Laws shall be amended by inserting the following paragraph:
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Any member of the retirement system member in service or member inactive, as defined in section
1 of the retirement system, who served as a volunteer to the Peace Corps, Vista, The Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service, or the Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who completes 10 or more y
ears of membership service, shall receive full credit for the period of such volunteer service but not more than 5 years. Eligibility for the creditable service of members in service of a retirement system shall be conditioned upon payment, in 1 sum or in
installments upon such terms as the retirement board may provide, into the annuity savings fund of the retirement system, of an amount equal to the contributions such member in service would have otherwise paid into the retirement system for the period of
volunteer service based upon the annual salary the member received in the first year of membership service after that volunteer service.
