HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 5333        FILED ON: 10/7/2010

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 5064

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Ten

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An Act City of the Gardner to Implement Plan Design Authority for Health Insurance Benefits..

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 chapter 32B and chapter 150E of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the City of Gardner is authorized to negotiate and purchase group insurance policies for Employees, Retirees and Dependents without being subject to collective bargaining as defined in chapter 150E of the general laws.