SENATE DOCKET, NO. 233 FILED ON: 1/18/2011 SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1313 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts _________________ PRESENTED BY: John F. Keenan _______________ 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: An Act prohibiting service in an elected public office within one year of retiring from an elected office. _______________ PETITION OF: Name: | District/Address: | John F. Keenan |
[District]
| James J. Dwyer | 30th Middlesex |
SENATE DOCKET, NO. 233 FILED ON: 1/18/2011 SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1313 By Mr. Keenan, petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1313) of Dwyer and Keenan for legislation to prohibit service in an elected public office within one year of retiring from an elected office [Joint Committee on Public Service]. |
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
An Act prohibiting service in an elected public office within one year of retiring from an elected office.
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. Subsection (a) of section 91 of chapter 32 of the general laws, as appearing in the 2008 Official Edition, is hereby amended in line 85 by inserting after the words “for service in a public office to which he has thereafter been elected by direct vote of the people” the following; - provided the position from which he retired was not a public office to which he had been elected by direct vote of the people, unless one year has passed from the last day he held such public elected office |
