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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4026 FILED ON: 1/20/2023 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2490 |
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| 4 | 4 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 5 | 5 | | _________________ |
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| 6 | 6 | | PRESENTED BY: |
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| 7 | 7 | | Mark J. Cusack |
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| 8 | 8 | | _________________ |
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| 9 | 9 | | To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General |
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| 10 | 10 | | Court assembled: |
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| 11 | 11 | | The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill: |
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| 12 | 12 | | An Act relative to creditable service for MBTA police officers. |
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| 13 | 13 | | _______________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 15 | 15 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Mark J. Cusack5th Norfolk1/20/2023 1 of 1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4026 FILED ON: 1/20/2023 |
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| 17 | 17 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2490 |
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| 18 | 18 | | By Representative Cusack of Braintree, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2490) of |
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| 19 | 19 | | Mark J. Cusack relative to creditable service for Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority |
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| 20 | 20 | | police officers. Public Service. |
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| 21 | 21 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 22 | 22 | | _______________ |
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| 23 | 23 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court |
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| 24 | 24 | | (2023-2024) |
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| 25 | 25 | | _______________ |
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| 26 | 26 | | An Act relative to creditable service for MBTA police officers. |
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| 27 | 27 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 28 | 28 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 29 | 29 | | 1 Paragraph (g) of clause (2) of section 3 of chapter 32, as appearing in the 2020 Official |
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| 30 | 30 | | 2Edition, is hereby amended, in line 248, by inserting the following:- |
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| 31 | 31 | | 3 Any member of the Massachusetts State Police or of a local municipal police department, |
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| 32 | 32 | | 4who has previous public safety experience as a member of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation |
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| 33 | 33 | | 5Authority police department, shall be eligible to count creditable years of service in the |
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| 34 | 34 | | 6Commonwealth to the local or state retirement system; provided that said police officer shall be |
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| 35 | 35 | | 7required to pay into the annuity savings fund of the retirement system in one sum, or in |
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| 36 | 36 | | 8installments, upon conditions as the retirement board or authority shall prescribe, an amount |
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| 37 | 37 | | 9equal to the accumulated regular deductions otherwise payable by the officer had they been an |
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| 38 | 38 | | 10active member in the Massachusetts State Police or local police department at the time of the |
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| 39 | 39 | | 11aforesaid employment, together with regular interest thereon up to his first day of employment in |
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| 40 | 40 | | 12a local police department or in the Massachusetts State Police. |
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