HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2512        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2541

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to credible service for veterans..

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 Section (h), paragraph 1 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition is

herby amended by adding at the end thereof the following sentence:

Any member who is a Veteran, as defined in Section 1 of said Chapter 115 as amended, who retired prior to

January 1996, may be granted credible service for service to the Commonwealth or any municipality or county and

such service may be compensated in a manner deemed acceptable by the retirement system with jurisdiction over

said retiree.