HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2551        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2542

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the credible service of Ray Silva..

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 board of retirement shall credit Ray Silva, a former clinical director in the department of youth services, with the 3 months of additional creditable service that would have made him eligible to receive an ordinary veteran’s disability retirement allowance under section 6 of chapter 32 of the General Laws at the time of his death.  The state board of retirement shall pay to his widow the survivor allowance to which she would have been entitled had he been credited with this additional service and found eligible to receive an ordinary veteran’s disability retirement.

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