HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 22        FILED ON: 1/2/2025

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 22

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court
(2025-2026)

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An Act providing for statement of financial interests flexibility.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to provide for state financial interests flexibility, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.
 

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. Paragraph (a) of section 20C of chapter 32 of the general laws, as appearing in the 2022 official edition, is hereby amended by inserting, in line 7, after the fourth “retirement board” the following: “,provided, however, that no retirement board member shall be required to file a statement of financial interests for the year in which he or she ceased to be a retirement board member if he or she served for less than thirty days in such year.”

SECTION 2. Section 20C of chapter 32 of the general laws, as appearing in the 2022 official edition, is hereby amended in line 78 by inserting after the words “section 16.”, the following: “A board member may petition the commission for a waiver of their removal from the board and their exclusion from future board service due to extenuating circumstances, provided that the member files their statement of financial interest by a date set by the commission.”