HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1430        FILED ON: 1/20/2011

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1604

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

_________________

PRESENTED BY:

Colleen M. Garry

_________________

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act relative to creditable service for vocational school committee members.

_______________

PETITION OF:

HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1430        FILED ON: 1/20/2011

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1604

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 2443 OF 2009-2010.]

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

_______________

In the Year Two Thousand Eleven

_______________

An Act relative to creditable service for vocational school committee members.

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 32: Section 4 of General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section (o1/2) the following section: -

(o3/4) Any member, eligible to receive a retirement benefit pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, who served as a vocational school committee member for a city or town, in which position he received no compensation, may establish credit for such service by depositing in the annuity savings fund of the system of which he is a member a sum equal to the amount which would have been paid into such fund during such period if such position had been compensated at the rate of $2,500 per year, plus regular interest to the date of payment. This paragraph shall apply only to persons who served as vocational school committee members for a city or town that accepts this paragraph, in a town by vote of the annual town meeting and in a city by vote of the city council subject to the provisions of its charter.