SENATE DOCKET, NO. 652        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1039

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the retirement of school social workers..

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 110 of the Acts of 1990 is hereby amended by adding following section:-

Section 5.  Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the provisions of section 1 of this act shall be retroactive to the date the school social worker was first employed as a school social worker and otherwise met the eligibility requirements of the state teachers’ retirement system or the State-Boston retirement system.

SECTION 2.  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2 of Chapter 114 of the Acts of 2000, school social workers shall have an additional 90 days from the passage of this act to elect into the alternative superannuation retirement benefit program established for members of the teachers’ retirement system and teachers who are members of the State-Boston retirement system.