Amendment #851 to H4100

Police Career Incentives

Representatives Brady of Brockton and Creedon of Brockton moves to amend the bill in section 2 by inserting after line item 8000-0038 the following item: 8000-0040.. For police career incentives to reimburse certain cities and towns for career incentive salary increases for police officers; provided, however, that regular full-time members of municipal police departments hired on or after July 1, 2012 shall not be eligible to participate in the career incentive pay program established pursuant to section 108L of chapter 41 of the General Laws; provided further, that any current regular full-time member of a municipal police department who has not enrolled in an education program for the purposes of participating in the career incentive pay program pursuant to said section 108L of said chapter 41 of the General Laws, as of October 1, 2012, shall not be eligible to participate in the career incentive pay program established pursuant to said section 108L of said chapter 41 of the General Laws; provided further, that any current regular full-time member of a municipal police department who has begun to accumulate credit hours pursuant to said section 108L of said chapter 41 of the General Laws as of October 1, 2012 shall be allowed to accumulate the maximum number of credit hours for any eligible degree permitted pursuant to said section 108L of said chapter 41 of the General Laws; provided further, that any current regular full-time member of a municipal police department on active duty in the armed forces of the United States in any theater of operations from July 1, 2011 through September 1, 2012 who enrolls in an education program for the purposes of participating in the career incentive pay program pursuant to said section 108L of said chapter 41 no later than 4 months from the date of his return from active duty shall be allowed to accumulate the maximum number of credit hours for any eligible degree permitted pursuant to said section 108L of said chapter 41; and provided further, that any permanent employee of a municipal police department appointed prior to October 1, 2012 and separated from employment pursuant to section 39 of chapter 31 of the General Laws may enroll in an education program for the purposes of participating in the career incentive pay program pursuant to said section 108L of said chapter 41 no later than 4 months from the date of his reinstatement ..................................... $5,000,000