HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1318        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2345

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act authorizing and directing the Teachers' Retirement Board to permit Jeanne Hicks to purchase certain out of state teaching 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 the provisions of any general or special law or rule or regulation to the contrary, the teacher’s retirement board is hereby authorized and directed to permit Jeanne Hicks to purchase creditable service in the teacher’s retirement system for her public school teaching in New York State under the provisions of subsection four of section three of chapter thirty-two of the general laws, notwithstanding her receipt of any pension or retirement allowance as a result of said New York State teaching service; provided, however, that any increase in Jeanne Hicks’s retirement allowance as a result of such purchase of service shall be reduced by the amount of any New York State pension or retirement allowance to which she is entitled.

SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.