SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1661        FILED ON: 1/21/2011

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1304

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

John Hart, Jr.

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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 the retirement of officers in the department of the state police.

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PETITION OF:

SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1661        FILED ON: 1/21/2011

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1304

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Eleven

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An Act relative to the retirement of officers in the department of the state police.

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 26 of chapter 32, as most recently amended by chapter 149 of the acts of 2004, is hereby amended by inserting after subparagraph 3(a) the following new subparagraph:-

Section 26(3)(d):  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, a member of the state police association of Massachusetts electing to retire upon or during their twenty-fifth year of service, or any such member with over twenty-five years of service electing to retire before December 31, 2012, shall receive a cost of living adjustment in each of their initial ten years of retirement equal to three percent of the total retirement allowance in the preceding year as provided for in sections twelve and thirteen and section twenty-six of chapter thirty-two.