FILED ON: 2/22/2024

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4437

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 correcting the membership date of a certain police officer in the town of North Reading relative to their membership in the Middlesex county retirement system.

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. Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision (2) of section 7 of chapter 32 of the General Laws, the annual amount of pension payable to Thomas Romeo, a retired police officer of the police department of the town of North Reading who has been determined to be totally and permanently incapacitated from performing the essential duties of a police officer, shall be amended and re-calculated as if his membership date with Middlesex county retirement system was January 10, 1985.

SECTION 2. The pension and annuity of Thomas Romeo shall not be subject to the 75 per cent limitation on such pension and annuity pursuant to said clause (ii) of said paragraph (a) of said subdivision (2) of said section 7 of said chapter 32.

SECTION 3. The recalculation by the Middlesex county retirement system shall be retroactive to Thomas Romeo's effective retirement date of January 20, 2023.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.