HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3322        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2561

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to pension reform.

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.   Section 4 of chapter 32 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the word "year", in each place it appears in paragraph (a) of subsection (1), and replacing it in each instance with the following word:— month.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect on the first Wednesday in January of the 2011 and shall only apply to those persons first sworn into office as an elected official on or after that date.

SECTION 3. . Paragraph (a) of subsection 2 of section 10 of chapter 32 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 50 and 51, the words “fails of nomination or re-election, or “.

SECTION 4. Said paragraph (a) of said subsection (2) of said section 10 of said chapter 32, as so appearing, is further amended, by striking out lines 73-77, and inserting in place thereof the following words:-

the following circumstances applies: (1) that the employee has failed of re-appointment, (2) that the employee’s office or position has been abolished, or (3) that the employee has been removed or discharged from his position without moral turpitude on his part.