Amendment ID: S2454-22

Amendment 22

Veterans' allowance for ordinary disability retirement

Ms. Gobi and Mr. O'Connor move to amend the bill by adding after section 2 the following new section:-

"SECTION 3. Section 6 of chapter 32 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2016 Official Edition, is amended by adding, after the words "of incarceration" in line 119, the following sub-section:

(e) Any member of Group 1 or Group 2 or Group 4, who is a veteran as defined in section 1, shall receive an additional yearly retirement allowance of $15 for each year of creditable service or fraction thereof, but the total amount of this additional yearly retirement allowance shall not exceed $300. This paragraph shall only take effect upon its acceptance by the majority vote of the board of a system, subject to the approval of the legislative body. For purposes of this paragraph, legislative body shall mean in the case of a city the city council in accordance with its charter, in the case of a town the town meeting, in the case of a county the county retirement board advisory council, in the case of a district the district members, in the case of an authority the governing body and in the case of a regional retirement system, the regional retirement board advisory council. The teachers' and state employees' retirement systems shall be considered to have accepted this paragraph."