HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1860        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2398

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the survivor benefits of John C. Poh..

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, the state retirement board shall pay a member survivor allowance to Lorraine J. Poh, widow of John C. Poh, effective on the date of his death February 12, 2008 who was a member of the contributory retirement system, equal to the amount she would have received if he had elected to take option (c) of section 12 of chapter 32 of the General Laws when he retried on November 1987.