Paragraph (g) of clause (2) of section 3 of chapter 32, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended, in line 248, by inserting the following:-

Any publicly employed law enforcement officer employed by a law enforcement agency, as defined in section1 of chapter 6E, who has previous public safety experience as a member of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority police department, shall be eligible to count creditable years of service in the Commonwealth to the local or state retirement system; provided that said law enforcement officer shall be required to pay into the annuity savings fund of the retirement system in one sum, or in installments, upon conditions as the retirement board or authority shall prescribe, an amount equal to the accumulated regular deductions otherwise payable by the officer had they been an active member of the law enforcement agency, as defined in section 1 of chapter 6E, at the time of the aforesaid employment, together with regular interest thereon up to his first day of employment in a a public law enforcement agency as defined in section1 of chapter 6E.