SENATE DOCKET, NO. 673        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 580

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to amend the definition of surcharge payor..

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 34 of chapter 118G of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting at the end of the definition of “Surcharge Payor” the following new sentence:

Nor shall “surcharge payor” include jointly trusteed, collectively bargained employee welfare benefit funds existing pursuant to and regulated by federal law.