HOUSE  .   .   .   .   .   .   .  No. 5148

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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                            HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, December 23, 2024.                         

The committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred the Bill authorizing the Massachusetts Teachers’ Retirement System to grant credible service to Kellie Martin (House, No. 3812), reports recommending that the same ought to pass with an amendment substituting therefor the accompanying bill (House, No. 5148).

For the committee,

AARON MICHLEWITZ.

        FILED ON: 12/23/2024

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 5148

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
(2023-2024)

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An Act relative to creditable service for Kellie Martin, a member of the Massachusetts Teachers’ Retirement System.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to authorize the Massachusetts teachers’ retirement board to grant creditable service to Kellie Martin, 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:
 

Notwithstanding any general or special law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the teachers’ retirement board shall credit Kellie Martin, a member of the teachers’ retirement system and an employee of the Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School in the city of New Bedford, with creditable service for the period of August 28, 2003 to August 28, 2006, inclusive, for the purpose of determining her superannuation retirement allowance pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivision (2) of section 5 of chapter 32 of the General Laws. Before the date that any retirement allowance becomes effective for Kellie Martin, she shall pay into the annuity savings fund of the teachers’ retirement system in 1 sum or installments, upon such terms and conditions as the teachers’ retirement board may prescribe, an amount equal to that which would have been withheld as regular deductions from her regular compensation for such previous service, plus buyback interest, as defined in section 1 of said chapter 32.