SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1457        FILED ON: 1/21/2011

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1282

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Katherine M. Clark, (BY REQUEST)

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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 retirement buy back in to the Massachusetts teachers' retirement system..

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Eleanor Burke

39 Vine Street Reading, MA 01867


SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1457        FILED ON: 1/21/2011

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1282

By Ms. Clark (by request), a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1282) for legislation that the Massachusetts Teachers’ Retirement Board be authorized and directed to credit Eleanor Burke of Reading with certain creditable service .  Public Service.

 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 2470 OF 2009-2010.]

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the Year Two Thousand Eleven

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An Act relative to retirement buy back in to the Massachusetts teachers' retirement system..

 

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 any general or special law to the contrary, the Massachusetts Teachers’ Retirement Board is hereby authorized and directed to credit Eleanor Burke of Reading with creditable service for the period from February 1994 to August 1997, inclusive, during which she served as consultant at the department of education, for the purpose of determining her superannuation retirement allowance; provided, however, that before the date any retirement allowance becomes effective, she shall pay into the annuity savings fund of the state retirement system in one sum or installments, upon such terms and conditions as the board may prescribe, an amount equal to that which would have been withheld as regular deductions from her regular compensation for such previous service, plus interest.